We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of more pensive in English
We have no meanings for "more pensive" in our records yet.
Usage of more pensive in English
1
The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
2
This formula she repeated, in a tone even more pensive than mine.
3
When he entered, she perceived that he looked more pensive than usual.
4
In the evening, she was pensive; this morning, at the well, more pensive still.
5
It was all rhymes.' She looked more pensive than ever.
6
The town became more pensive than ever over old fashions.
7
She seemed quieter than usual, more nostalgic, and more pensive.
8
Occasionally Mr. Balfour's discussion of the United States would take a more pensive turn.
9
She has not lost her beauty; though it is of a softer, more pensive kind.
10
They were still dressed in mourning, their charming faces seeming even more pensive than usual.
11
Attilio was more pensive than usual; the prospect of returning to his bricks was plainly irksome.
12
Her presence operated as perpetual sunshine on the more pensive natures of the mother and son.
13
His eyes had grown larger and more pensive.
14
That evening, M. de Langevy saw her more pensive than usual, and asked her the cause.
15
The mind of Barclay, relieved of present responsibility, evolved other less pressing but more pensive thoughts.
16
She paused a moment, and grew more pensive as she looked stilly and solemnly at me.
This collocation consists of:
More pensive through the time
More pensive across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common