Word.ws English Dictionary

pensative

pensative adjective: pensive.

Adjective

pensative (comparative more pensative, superlative most pensative)

  1. (obsolete) pensive
    • being very pensative to hear the follies that Don Quixote spoke1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of pensative

comparativemore pensative
superlativemost pensative

Questions about pensative

What does pensative mean?
Pensative means pensive.
What part of speech is pensative?
Pensative is an adjective.

Words near pensative in the dictionary

  1. pens up
  2. Pensacola
  3. Pensacolan
  4. Pensacolans
  5. Pensarn
  6. pensative
  7. Pensaukee
  8. Pense
  9. pensel
  10. pensels
  11. penseroso

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pensative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pensative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pensative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.