Pensive vs Preoccupied - What's the difference?
pensive | preoccupied |
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.
Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
(preoccupy)
As adjectives the difference between pensive and preoccupied
is that pensive is having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking while preoccupied is concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.As a verb preoccupied is
(preoccupy).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
* ----preoccupied
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.