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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bemused, blue, brooding, castle-building, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, daydreaming, daydreamy, deliberating, deliberative, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, excogitating, faraway, funky, grave, half-awake, ideative, in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, introspective, lost, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, melancholic, melancholy, mental, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, noetic, oblivious, pipe-dreaming, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, sad, saddened, serious, sober, somewhere else, speculative, stargazing, taken up, thinking, thought, thoughtful, transported, tristful, unconscious, wistful, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought
Dictionary Results for pensive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pensive
    adj 1: deeply 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";
           [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative,
           meditative, musing, pensive, pondering,
           reflective, ruminative]
    2: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response
       of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: pensive,
       wistful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pensive \Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L.
   pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to
   weigh. See Pension, Poise.]
   1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection;
      given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
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            The pensive secrecy of desert cell.   --Milton.
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            Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope.
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   2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as,
      pensive numbers. --Prior.
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