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say it: PEN-siv
pensive is an adjective meaning "deeply or seriously thoughtful". It is pronounced /ˈpɛnsɪv/ — PEN-siv. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pensive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.