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English to English adjective
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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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deeply or seriously thoughtful | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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showing pensive sadness | | Example: the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
source: wordnet30
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