pensative
English edit
Adjective edit
pensative (comparative more pensative, superlative most pensative)
- (obsolete) pensive
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
- being very pensative to hear the follies that Don Quixote spoke
References edit
“pensative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.