TubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “pensive”
Hear “pensive” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for pensive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pensive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Amartya Sen
Went into a sort of a pensive state thinking about some
- Definition summary
- Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce pensive
Amartya Sen

Went into a sort of a pensive state thinking about some
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pensive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.
- Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
- Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
Practice Nearby Words
musing, pondering, ruminative, meditative, contemplative, thoughtful, wistful, sad, reflective, brooding, broody, phlegmatic, melancholic, melancholy, pondersome, thoughtsome, melancholick, pensy, reflecting, ponderous, plaintive, moody, thoughty, melancholish, solemn, heavy-hearted, melancholous, depressive, dolorous, museful, gloomy, dour, somberish, sombersome, overcast, sombre, glum, regardant, bluish, tristful, vaporous, elegious, sullen, serious-minded, doleful, blue, ruminant, somber, downcast, atrabilious, downlooked, sadful, mournful, morose, moodish, moped, low-hearted, dreich, pauseful, mournsome, mopey, gloomish, reposeful, thinky, mopeful, sad-eyed, thinksome, heavy-lidded, gloomful, dumpish, bemusing, sombrous, sad-faced, depressing, triste, sombresome, muddy, sepulchral, damp, broodsome, hypped, considerative, gloomyish, dark, grave, dewy-eyed, careful, tristeful, elegiac, depressed, lugubrious, dew-eyed, worried, pentimentoed, sorrowful, saturnic, atrabilarious, dove-eyed, dampy, shadowy
Similar Sounds
pensive, pensa, passiv, passive, pouncing, pensi, poncing, penso, pensee, tensive, sensive, pulsive, pancy, penza, pansa, penske, pence, ponce, penning, pense, pounces, plosive, pensively, pouncey, pressive, poncy, poncey, pensar, penser, pensative, ponsi, pensees, pursive, ponceau, bouncing, pinsky, pinski, benzing, pencil, pissing, punching, possessive, pinching, pinning, pena, pincer, pensil, punning, pince, panza, penna, pencel, pesa, pensile, penson, pensel, ponces, penuche, pesah, punative, pinsk, point of, prensa, ponza, pensum, penny, passing, painting, pacing, pansy, pending, pennie, pennys, panning, penney, paining, pennis, peni, penni, pance, pasing, pawning, pantsuit, pansie, penang, penick, penns, panzi, pantsed, panse, panser, peening, penii, pacif, panss, passives, pen knife, paunce, pennae, been sick