Pensive
Pensive , adjective
[French pensif, from penser to think, from Latin pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. from pendere to weigh. See Pension, Poise.]
1.
Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
The pensive secrecy of desert cell.
Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed.
2.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. — Prior