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[ US /ˈpɛnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛnsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. 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
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