pensive

adj.(悲伤的)思考的

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pensive (adjective)
1.
musingly or dreamily - thoughtful
2.
suggestive of sad thoughtfulness
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
pensive (adjective)
given to or marked by long, quiet thinking
SYNONYMS:
broody, cogitative, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thoughtful
RELATED WORDS:
introspective, retrospective, self-reflective; earnest, grave, sedate, serious, serious-minded, severe, sober, solemn, somber ( sombre), weighty; philosophical ( philosophic); analytic ( analytical), logical, rational; deliberate, purposeful; absentminded, abstracted, preoccupied
NEAR ANTONYMS:
featherbrained, flighty, flippant, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained; brainless, mindless, silly, thoughtless, unthinking
unreflective
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