Clues for the word "PENSIVE"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 46 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 09, 2026.
Definition of pensive
- a. - Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
- a. - Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
Referring Clues
- Quietly thinking
- Deep in thought
- Wistful
- Thoughtful
- Contemplative
- Seriously thinking
- Musingly thoughtful
- Wistfully thoughtful
- Thoughtful, in a sad way
- Meditative
- Deeply thoughtful
- Brooding
- In deep thought
- Writer's riddle said to make one thoughtful
- With his tools, Gordius has to be thoughtful
- Thoughtful writers I have seen
- Preoccupied, write riddle with no middle
- Writes four essays, initially thoughtful
- Lost in thought
- Thoughtful enclosures I have seen
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 09, 2026
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2022
- LA Times - September 18, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - January 09, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2018
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 09, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 08, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 03, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 01, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 14, 2017
- New York Times - February 26, 2017
- Netword - February 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - August 14, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 27, 2016
- Universal - May 27, 2016
- Guardian Quick - March 16, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - May 10, 2015
- And in 16 more crossword puzzles...