Difference between Reflective and Pensive

REFLECTIVE vs PENSIVE: ADJECTIVE

Capable of physically reflecting light or sound
Persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
Capable of or producing reflection.
Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful. : pensive.
Throwing back images.
Addicted to introspective or meditative habits.
Reflexive; reciprocal.
Devoted to matters of the mind
Thinking back on the past.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful
Something which reflects, or redirects back to the source.

Showing pensive sadness
Persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Engaged in deep and serious thought.
Showing or expressing deep, often melancholy thought.
Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness.
Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful

Produced by reflection.
Throwing back rays or images; giving reflections; reflecting.
Taking cognizance of the operations of the mind; exercising thought or reflection; capable of exercising thought or judgment.
Having a tendency to or characterized by reflection.
Devoted to reflection; containing reflections.
In grammar, reflexive.

Synonyms Meditative, reflective, sober.
Expressing thoughtfulness with sadness; betokening or conducive to thoughtful or earnest musing.
Engaged in serious thought or reflection; given to earnest musing: often implying some degree of anxiety, depression, or gloom; thoughtful and somewhat melancholy.

Reflects, Reflect, Intellectual, Broody, Pondering, Musing, Specular, Brooding, Meditative, Pensive, Ruminative, Thoughtful, Contemplative, Mirrorlike, Reflecting

Introspective, Melancholy, Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Pondering, Sad, Musing, Reflective, Broody, Thoughtful, Meditative, Ruminative, Brooding, Contemplative, Wistful

Illuminating, Reflect, Intellectual, Broody, Pondering, Musing, Specular, Brooding, Meditative, Pensive, Ruminative, Thoughtful, Contemplative, Mirrorlike, Reflecting

Introspective, Melancholy, Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Pondering, Sad, Musing, Reflective, Broody, Thoughtful, Meditative, Ruminative, Brooding, Contemplative, Wistful

Great looking cards with heavy reflective silver foil.
Demonstrates reflective practice in written or verbal form.
Gain an experiential understanding of Reflective Structured Dialogue.
Reflective reports: In addition to the assessed reports, three reflective reports are completed.
Researchers read transcripts, wrote reflective notes and engaged in reflective dialogues about each interview and the whole material.
Engage in faceface interactions and obtain reflective feedback so that they can develop the skills to do reflective supervision with other professionals.
Street names shall be displayed using reflective white letters on a reflective green background.
Reflective Practice post outlines the Gibbs Reflective Cycle, and how to write reflectively.
Perform transmission, reflective and aging studies on renewable reflective films.
Presentation Reflective Reading, Reflective Responding Reflection and the Writing Course Reflection and Assessment Literacy and the Curriculum Reflective Texts, Reflective Writers.

Pensive Face, but with a sadder, more hurt expression.
Image: Pensive young woman holding smart phone at workplace.
Proctor, is engaged in pensive selfreflection regarding his life.
Len nodded, his own expression calmer, more pensive.
Now Tom could see his face: pensive, withdrawn.
Fr: My leasure serves me pensive daughter now.
But why so pensive, my good master Fox?
The Governor General found him pensive and sad.
The audience will long remember that pensive night.
It can also refer to any pensive or reflective poem that is nostalgic or melancholy, or to a short, pensive musical composition.