Textual thesaurus for "pensive"

(adj) wistful

showing pensive sadness

the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty

(adj) meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, contemplative, brooding, broody

deeply or seriously thoughtful

Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man;