Definition: showing pensive sadness
Usage: the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
Main entry: meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, contemplative, brooding, broody
Definition: deeply or seriously thoughtful
Usage: Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man;