Word Meanings - PENSIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a pensive manner.

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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
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• PENSIVED
  Made pensive. Shak.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• PENSIVENESS
  The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• PENSIVELY
  In a pensive manner.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• 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.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• 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;
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• UNEXPENSIVE
  Inexpensive. Milton.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• RECOMPENSIVE
  Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.