What is the meaning of pensive?

adjective

  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
    • usage: "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";
  • Showing pensive sadness.
    • usage: "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
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