Usually means: Deep in thought; reflective mood.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pensively: Merriam-Webster
  2. pensively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pensively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pensively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pensively, pensively: Wordnik
  6. pensively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pensively: Wiktionary
  8. Pensively, pensively: Dictionary.com
  9. pensively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pensively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pensively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pensively: Rhymezone
  13. Pensively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pensively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. pensively: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pensively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pensively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pensively: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pensively)

▸ adverb:  In a thoughtful or reflective manner.

Similar:
thoughtfully, reflectively, ponderingly, contemplatingly, reflectingly, contemplatively, consideringly, pausefully, musingly, thinkingly, more...

Opposite:
carelessly, thoughtlessly, recklessly



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Similar:
thoughtfully, reflectively, ponderingly, contemplatingly, reflectingly, contemplatively, consideringly, pausefully, musingly, thinkingly, more...

Opposite:
carelessly, thoughtlessly, recklessly



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