If you are pensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially something that worries you slightly. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive. = thoughtful + pensively pen·sive·ly Angela stared pensively out of the window. thinking a lot about something, especially because you are worried or sad thoughtful (pensif, from penser )
showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty