pensative

English

Adjective

pensative (comparative more pensative, superlative most pensative)

1. (obsolete) pensive
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     being very pensative to hear the follies that Don Quixote spoke

References

“pensative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.