pensive
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
pens
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
pensive
thinking deeply or seriously, often about sad or melancholy (sadness and depression of spirits) things
沉思的, 愁眉苦脸的
Dissection of pensive
pensive = pens (weight; extended further to mean ponder or consider) + -ive (indicating tendency, quality, connection);
pensive = considering or thinking about something deeply
Now Repeat my Dissection
pensive = considering or thinking about something deeply
Important roots for this word:
-ive
pens
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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