[1] : 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.
      1913 webster

            the pensive secrecy of desert cell.   --milton.
      1913 webster

            anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as,
      pensive numbers. --prior.
      1913 webster
see also:
pension poise 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pensive
     adj 1: persistently or morbidly thoughtful syn: brooding, broody,
             contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering,
             reflective, ruminative
     2: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response
        of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" syn: wistful
see also:
brooding broody contemplative meditative musing pondering 
reflective ruminative wistful 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

82 moby thesaurus words for "pensive":
   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   unconscious, wistful, withdrawn, woolgathering,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

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