Pensively

"Pensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pensively" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Pensively

Language		Translations for "pensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendueshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏بتفكر. (various references)

Chinese		沉思地 (Contemplatively). (various references)

Czech		zamyšlenì. (various references)

French		pensivement. (various references)

German		gedankenvoll (mindful, pensive, thoughtful, thoughtfully). (various references)

Hungarian		töprengve, tépelődve, gondolkodva. (various references)

Korean		구슬�"�게. (various references)

Pig Latin		ensivelypay

Romanian		pe gânduri, trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), melancolic (doleful, gloomily, gloomy, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, sad, somber, sombre, splenetic, wistful), meditativ (cogitative, meditating, meditative, meditatively, mused, museful, musing, musingly, pensive, speculative, thoughtful, wistful), îngândurat (abstracted, musing, musingly, uneasy). (various references)

Turkish		dalgın dalgın (absently, abstractedly, vacantly), düşünceli bir halde. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Pensively

Derivations
	Words ending with "pensively": expensively, inexpensively, suspensively. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pensively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pencavel, pensivley, pensivly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Pensively"

Words rhyming with "pensively" (pronounced 'Pen"sive*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Anagrams: Pensively

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-s-v-y"
	-2 letters: pensile, pensive, spleeny, sylvine, vespine, yeelins.
	-3 letters: enisle, ensile, envies, evenly, levies, levins, linsey, livens, lysine, nieves, pelves, pelvis, penile, pensil, senile, sleepy, snivel, spinel, spleen, spline, sylvin, vinyls, yeelin.
	-4 letters: elves, evens, evils, lenes, lenis, lense, levin, liens, lieve, lines, liney, liven, lives, lysin, neeps, neves, nieve, peels, peens, peins, peise, peles.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-s-v-y"
	+2 letters: expansively, expensively.
	+3 letters: protensively, responsively, suspensively.
	+4 letters: inexpensively, perseveringly.
	+5 letters: apprehensively, inexpressively, unresponsively.
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