Word Meanings - PENSIVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Made pensive. Shak.
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- PENSIVE
weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares - PENSIVED
Made pensive. Shak. - PENSIVENESS
The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker. - PENSIVELY
In a pensive manner. - SUSPENSIVE
Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition - INEXPENSIVE
Not expensive; cheap. - EXPENSIVE
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke. 2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; - UNEXPENSIVE
Inexpensive. Milton. - RECOMPENSIVE
Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.