0 thinking in a quiet way, often with a serious expression on your face:
1 quiet and thinking seriously:
James was more pensive than usual.
Upon hearing the cue without first knowing the film, this author noted that there are no overt gestures, but generally, pensive and reflectively tragic qualities.
That is, they do not trace any pensive motion of the soul or heart but are a volley of words discharged.
His only chance of restoration to health and activity is a prolonged and pensive system of medical treatment.
The same argument would apply in that case, because the nearer the barracks were the more ex, pensive they would prove.
It is an expensive business because staff is ex- pensive.
The more ex- pensive that a school makes it for people to hire a room, the more people will be against that establishment.
Those flats are going to be far more ext pensive than the houses, and the cubic space is going to be lower, and they are not what the people want.
A£4,000 house would be fairly ex pensive.