Pensive
Pensive is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 12 points
- Letters
- 7
- Syllables
- 2
- How common
- Rare
Pronunciation: recording from Wikimedia Commons
Meaning of pensive
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adjectiveDeeply or seriously thoughtful.
“Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man”
Similar: brooding , broody , contemplative , meditative , musing , pondering , reflective , ruminative
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adjectiveShowing pensive sadness.
“the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty”
Similar: wistful
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of pensive
- vespine12
Words inside pensive
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- envies9
- nieves9
- seven8
- penis7
- pines7
- seine5
- sieve8
- snipe7
- spine7
- veins8
- vines8
- evens8
- neves8
- nieve8
- neeps7
- peens7
- peins7
- peise7
- penes7
- veeps10
- even7
- seen4
- pine6
- spin6
- pens6
- pies6
- pins6
- sine4
- vein7
- vine7
- eves7
- neve7
- nevi7
- nips6
- peen6
- pees6
- pein6
- seep6
- sene4
- sipe6
Words that rhyme with pensive
- defensive
- expensive
- extensive
- intensive
- offensive
- comprehensive
- apprehensive
- inexpensive
- hypertensive
- inoffensive
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