Crossword-Solution: PENSIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pensive | a. | Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. |
| Pensive | a. | Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PENSIVE | anagram | VESPINE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PENSIVE (5)
From the story of Osseo Let us learn the fate of jesters!” All the wedding guests delighted Listened to the marvellous story, Listened laughing and applauding, And they whispered to each other: “Does he mean himself, I wonder? And are we the aunts and uncles?” Then again sang Chibiabos, Sang a song of love and longing, In those accents sweet and tender, In those tones of pensive sadness, Sang a maiden’s lamentation For her lover, her Algonquin.
Pensive here I sat Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.
Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
She was pensive that evening; yet, when I left her, she flung her arms about me and grew, for an instant, bashfully radiant as she slipped a ring on my finger.
These were among the echoes to which Lucie, sometimes pensive, sometimes amused and laughing, listened in the echoing corner, until her little daughter was six years old.
Quotes with PENSIVE (3)
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to…
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and un-suspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods-- all rise within me to mean you, who forever elude me. You, Beloved, who…
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).