Meanings
adjectivepensative (comparative more pensative, superlative most pensative)
comparative more pensative · superlative most pensative
- obsoletepensive
being very pensative to hear the follies that Don Quixote spoke
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
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