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Mnemonic Aid to Learn Pensive:

Pensive equals to ‘with PEN in your mouth you often indulge in some deep thought’, if you are pensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially something that worries you slightly. It means that

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Meaning of Pensive:

1. feeling sad or depressed while being deep in thought.

Pronunciation: pen-siv

Sentence Examples for Pensive:

1. she stared pensively out of the window.
2. he looked suddenly pensive.
3. he felt pensive after reading a depressing novel.

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