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Pensive vs Feckless - What's the difference?

pensive | feckless |

As adjectives the difference between pensive and feckless

is that pensive is having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking while feckless is lacking purpose.

pensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
  • Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 4.
    • Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce

    Derived terms

    * pensively * pensiveness

    Anagrams

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    feckless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking purpose.
  • * 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
    • It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."
  • Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
  • (UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
  • (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

    • Synonyms

    * futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless, useless * unpurposed, worthless, aimless, careless, reckless, irresponsible

    Antonyms

    * effective, efficient, meaningful, useful * purposeful, careful, responsible

    Related terms

    * fecklessly * fecklessness

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