384 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈɛnsɪv], [ pˈɛnsɪv], [ p_ˈɛ_n_s_ɪ_v]

Similar words for pensive:

• contemplative (adjective)
• dejected (adjective)
• dreamy (adjective)
• meditative (adjective)
• meditative, solemn (adjective)
• melancholy (adjective)
• moody (adjective)
• moony (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• philosophical/philosophic (adjective)
• reflective (adjective)
• retrospective (adjective)
• sad (adjective)
• serious (adjective)
• sobersided (adjective)
• solemn (adjective)
• thinking (adjective)
• thoughtful (adjective)
• wistful (adjective)
• absent-minded (noun)
• brooding (noun)
• broody (noun)
• contemplative (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "pensive" in context?

Paraphrases for pensive

Synonyms for Pensive:

• adj.

  • contemplative (adjective)
  • pondering,
  • introspective,
  • most reflecting,
  • most pondering,
  • more pondering,
  • in tent,
  • more reflecting,
  • in brown study.
  • dejected (adjective)
  • dejected,
  • dispirited,
  • dolorous,
  • discouraged,
  • gloomy,
  • downhearted,
  • joyless,
  • blue,
  • overcome,
  • woeful,
  • lachrymose,
  • disconsolate,
  • sad,
  • heartbroken,
  • anxious,
  • sullen,
  • depressed,
  • disheartened,
  • despondent,
  • anguished,
  • plaintive,
  • glum,
  • miserable,
  • mournful,
  • morose,
  • dreary,
  • despairing,
  • grim.
  • dreamy (adjective)
  • pre-occupied,
  • out world,
  • most lulling,
  • more daydreaming,
  • in tangible,
  • pre occupied,
  • more relaxing,
  • mis-tier,
  • out of world,
  • misty,
  • un-substantial,
  • most phantasmagorical,
  • soothing,
  • un-real,
  • un substantial,
  • mis tier,
  • more phantasmagorical,
  • most daydreaming,
  • more lulling,
  • most introvertive,
  • un real,
  • most relaxing,
  • visionary,
  • in-tangible,
  • more introvertive,
  • out this world.
  • meditative (adjective)
  • Lucubratory,
  • more ruminant,
  • more lucubratory,
  • ruminant,
  • most ruminant,
  • most lucubratory.
  • meditative, solemn (adjective)
  • attentive,
  • ruminative,
  • withdrawn,
  • absorbed,
  • grave,
  • sober,
  • musing,
  • reflecting,
  • Ruminating.
  • melancholy (adjective)
  • de stroyed,
  • more saddening,
  • down mouth,
  • down dumps,
  • most mirthless,
  • most saddening,
  • low spirited,
  • un-happy,
  • most dragged,
  • de-stroyed,
  • un happiest,
  • down out,
  • down the mouth,
  • more saddened,
  • un happy,
  • lowspirited,
  • down the dumps,
  • most saddened,
  • un happier,
  • more dragged,
  • more mirthless.
  • moody (adjective)
  • illhumored,
  • more illhumored,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • ill tempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • shorttempered,
  • splenetic,
  • most moping,
  • out sorts,
  • ill-humored,
  • ill humored,
  • most piqued,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more splenetic,
  • more ill humored,
  • most splenetic,
  • more piqued,
  • short tempered,
  • illtempered,
  • more moping,
  • in huff.
  • moony (adjective)
  • woolgathering,
  • most woolgathering,
  • more woolgathering.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • melancholy,
  • no fooling,
  • solemn,
  • in doldrums,
  • moony,
  • mirthless,
  • in blue funk,
  • phantasmagorical,
  • reflective,
  • serious,
  • introvertive,
  • torn up,
  • wistful,
  • down in the dumps,
  • sick at heart,
  • in the doldrums,
  • down in dumps,
  • in a huff,
  • griefstricken,
  • retrospective,
  • moody,
  • down in mouth,
  • meditative,
  • lugubrious,
  • philosophic,
  • down and out,
  • thoughtful,
  • Museful,
  • dreamy,
  • lost in thought.
  • philosophical/philosophic (adjective)
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro founder,
  • pro found.
  • reflective (adjective)
  • de-liberate,
  • more reasoning,
  • more cogitating,
  • de liberate,
  • most reasoning,
  • most cogitating.
  • retrospective (adjective)
  • re-collective,
  • more recollective,
  • most recollective,
  • re collective,
  • recollective.
  • sad (adjective)
  • be-reaved,
  • dis tressed,
  • grief stricken,
  • heartsick,
  • be reaved,
  • sick heart,
  • more hurting,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most grieved,
  • most bereaved,
  • more bereaved,
  • in the dumps,
  • in dumps,
  • more grieved,
  • in grief.
  • serious (adjective)
  • no nonsense,
  • long-faced,
  • unhumorous,
  • go for broke,
  • cold sober.
  • sobersided (adjective)
  • in earnest.
  • solemn (adjective)
  • more brooding,
  • matter life and death,
  • in-tense,
  • in tenser,
  • matter of life death,
  • most brooding,
  • in-tensest,
  • matter life death,
  • in-tenser,
  • in tense.
  • thinking (adjective)
  • de-liberating,
  • de liberating,
  • most ruminating,
  • most meditating,
  • more ruminating,
  • more meditating,
  • most deliberating,
  • more deliberating.
  • thoughtful (adjective)
  • most museful,
  • de-liberative,
  • lost thought,
  • more museful,
  • de liberative.
  • wistful (adjective)
  • most yearning,
  • more yearning.

• n.

  •
  • deductive,
  • reasoned,
  • insightful,
  • sound,
  • abstracted,
  • intellectual,
  • smart,
  • wrapped in thought,
  • preoccupied,
  • perceptive,
  • incisive.
  •
  • speculative,
  • in a brown study,
  • thoughts.
  • absent-minded (noun)
  • Absent-minded.
  • brooding (noun)
  • brooding.
  • broody (noun)
  • broody.
  • contemplative (noun)
  • contemplative.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • thinking.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • cogitative,
  • excogitative,
  • deliberative.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • cogitation,
  • hypothesize,
  • Atrabiliar,
  • attention,
  • stargazing,
  • atrabilious,
  • hypothecate,
  • bilious,
  • care,
  • chew over,
  • bemused,
  • cognitive,
  • wound,
  • ideative,
  • Saddened,
  • contemplation,
  • agony,
  • cogitate,
  • trouble,
  • anguish,
  • funky,
  • contemplate,
  • das,
  • penseroso,
  • imagine,
  • inattentive,
  • far-away,
  • melancholic,
  • conjecture,
  • conceive,
  • musingly,
  • ruminate,
  • studious,
  • lost,
  • pensiveness,
  • reasonable,
  • drowsing,
  • contrive,
  • elsewhere,
  • absentminded,
  • muse,
  • hypothesise,
  • anxiety,
  • nodding,
  • Dolesome,
  • severe,
  • ratiocinative,
  • grief,
  • pain,
  • in tears,
  • bittersweet,
  • daydreamy,
  • earnest,
  • sorrowful,
  • thought,
  • half-awake,
  • deliberate,
  • meditation,
  • mental,
  • intelligent,
  • conceptualized,
  • castle-building,
  • doleful,
  • regretful,
  • Concentrating,
  • at ease,
  • solicitude,
  • daydreaming,
  • dwell,
  • vague,
  • Excogitating,
  • ecstatic,
  • noetic,
  • deliberation,
  • introspect,
  • mull,
  • concentrate,
  • Contemplating,
  • straight-faced,
  • affliction,
  • reasoning,
  • lackadaisical,
  • pipe-dreaming,
  • worry about,
  • Concentrative,
  • Grieved,
  • saturnine,
  • unsmiling,
  • pore,
  • in a trance,
  • dour,
  • hatching,
  • pensively,
  • Deliberating,
  • uneasiness,
  • dolor,
  • somewhere else,
  • woebegone,
  • job,
  • oblivious,
  • dreaming,
  • faraway,
  • conceptual,
  • humourless,
  • in the clouds,
  • reflection,
  • Mooning,
  • unconscious,
  • rumination,
  • sensible,
  • conceptive,
  • sedate,
  • rational,
  • rapt,
  • ponder,
  • absent,
  • napping,
  • sombre,
  • taken up,
  • bethink,
  • detached,
  • meditate,
  • consideration,
  • disquiet,
  • distant,
  • sobersided,
  • fear,
  • desirous,
  • consider,
  • Transported,
  • poker-faced,
  • occupied,
  • in a reverie,
  • alarm,
  • philosophical,
  • Meditating,
  • Lacrymose,
  • hypochondriacal,
  • worried,
  • thinker,
  • jaundiced,
  • random,
  • engrossed,
  • Cogitating,
  • brood,
  • languorous,
  • tristful,
  • distress.

How to use "Pensive" in context?

Paraphrases for Pensive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    thoughtful.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    phlegmatic.