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Synonyms for pensive

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adjective · 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”

adjective · showing pensive sadness

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