| 单词 | pensive |
| 释义 | pensive —pensively, adv. —pensiveness, n. /pen"siv/, adj. 1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood. 2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness: a pensive adagio. [1325-75; < F (fem.); r. ME pensif < MF (masc.), deriv. of penser to think < L pensare to weigh, consider, deriv. of pensus, ptp. of pendere. See PENSION, -IVE] Syn. 1. PENSIVE, MEDITATIVE, REFLECTIVE suggest quiet modes of apparent or real thought. PENSIVE, the weakest of the three, suggests dreaminess or wistfulness, and may involve little or no thought to any purpose: a pensive, faraway look. MEDITATIVE involves thinking of certain facts or phenomena, perhaps in the religious sense of "contemplation," without necessarily having a goal of complete understanding or of action: meditative but unjudicial. REFLECTIVE has a strong implication of orderly, perhaps analytic, processes of thought, usually with a definite goal of understanding: a careful and reflective critic. Ant. 1. thoughtless. |
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