Pensive vs Meditative - What's the difference?
pensive | meditative |
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.
Of or pertaining to meditation .
As adjectives the difference between pensive and meditative
is that pensive is having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking while meditative is .pensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
Derived terms
* pensively * pensivenessAnagrams
* ----meditative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- After hearing the news he became meditative .