Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Pensive”
/ˈpɛn.sɪv/
Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
♬89 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Pensive"
39 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "pensive" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| apprehensive | 4 | noun | Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant. |
| comprehensive | 4 | noun | Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something. |
| extensive | 3 | Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast. | |
| offensive | 3 | noun | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| intensive | 3 | noun | Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough. |
| defensive | 3 | noun | (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. |
| inoffensive | 4 | not offensive | |
| expensive | 3 | Having a high price or cost. | |
| inexpensive | 4 | Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap. | |
| tensive | 2 | Of or pertaining to tension | |
| counteroffensive | 5 | noun | US spelling of counter-offensive. [An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.] |
| hypertensive | 4 | noun | Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension. |
| commonsense of | 4 | — | |
| defence of | 3 | — | |
| defense of | 3 | — | |
| dense of | 2 | — | |
| dispense of | 3 | — | |
| expense of | 3 | — | |
| fence of | 2 | — | |
| frankincense of | 4 | — | |
| hence of | 2 | — | |
| immense of | 3 | — | |
| incense of | 3 | — | |
| intense of | 3 | — | |
| lense of | 2 | — | |
| offense of | 3 | — | |
| pence of | 2 | — | |
| pense of | 2 | — | |
| prensa of | 2 | — | |
| pretense of | 3 | — | |
| recompense of | 4 | — | |
| sensa of | 2 | — | |
| sense of | 2 | — | |
| spence of | 2 | — | |
| spens of | 2 | — | |
| suspense of | 3 | — | |
| tense of | 2 | — | |
| thence of | 2 | — | |
| whence of | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Pensive"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| perceptive | 3 | Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition. | |
| pretentious | 3 | Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others. | |
| perspective | 3 | noun | (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience. |
| impressive | 3 | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. | |
| restive | 2 | Impatient under delay, duress, or control. | |
| attentive | 3 | Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely. | |
| aggressive | 3 | noun | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| momentous | 3 | Outstanding in importance, of great consequence. | |
| inventive | 3 | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. | |
| excessive | 3 | Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate. | |
| mental | 2 | noun | (relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality. |
| reflective | 3 | Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. | |
| menace | 2 | noun | A perceived threat or danger. |
| reflexive | 3 | noun | (grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject. |
| demented | 3 | Insane; mentally ill. | |
| defective | 3 | noun | Having one or more defects. |
| suggestive | 3 | Tending to suggest or imply. | |
| consequences | 4 | noun | An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written. |
| tension | 2 | noun | The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. |
| incentive | 3 | noun | Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. |
| apprentice | 3 | noun | A trainee, especially in a skilled trade. |
| senseless | 2 | Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense. | |
| venom | 2 | noun | An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey. |
| expressive | 3 | noun | Effectively conveying thought or feeling. |
| tensile | 2 | Capable of being stretched; ductile. | |
| mention | 2 | verb | A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. |
| lesson | 2 | noun | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| defenseless | 3 | Lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack. | |
| pressive | 2 | (obsolete) pressing; urgent | |
| census | 2 | noun | An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. |
| stencil | 2 | noun | A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet. |
| depressive | 3 | noun | Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic. |
| festive | 2 | Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | |
| descended | 3 | verb | Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position. |
| pension | 2 | noun | (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. |
| fencing | 2 | noun | The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing). |
| pencil | 2 | noun | A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. |
| senses | 2 | The Senses, or Sense, were a Dacian tribe in the southern region of Dacia. | |
| defenses | 3 | noun | The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. |
| dental | 2 | noun | (relational) Of or concerning the teeth. |
| ended | 2 | (especially in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends. | |
| rented | 2 | verb | (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent. |
| pensile | 2 | Hanging down, suspended. | |
| tenses | 2 | noun | (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. |
| benson | 2 | noun | An English habitational surname from Old English from a place in Oxfordshire. |
| fences | 2 | a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. | |
| offended | 3 | hurt or upset | |
| pensyl | 2 | noun | — |
| progressive | 3 | noun | Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods. |
| sensing | 2 | noun | The act of sensation. |
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