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US
/ˈpɛnsɪv/
]
[ UK /pˈɛnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛnsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
showing pensive sadness
the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
How To Use pensive In A Sentence
- We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
- They will be slightly more expensive but they last a lot longer.
- Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
- The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release. Quake Renews Call to Enforce Pill Law
- Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
- ‘The best place to make mercerized fabrics is still Italy, but they are very expensive,’ says Kwok.
- Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
- He has a very expensive wristwatch and he misses no opportunity to show it off.
- The company refused to honour the verbal agreement and put him on a more expensive tariff. Times, Sunday Times
- KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece. The Sun