'Thoughtful' definitions:
Definition of 'thoughtful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
adjective
Exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" [ant: thoughtless]
adjective
Acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man" [syn: thoughtful, serious-minded]
adjective
Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" [syn: heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention] [ant: heedless, unheeding]
adjective
Considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
Definition of 'Thoughtful'
From: GCIDE
- Thoughtful \Thought"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. [1913 Webster]
- War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned. [1913 Webster]
- Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear, And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet.
- Usage: Thoughtful, Considerate. He who is habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect and guard himself against error. One who is not thoughtful by nature, if he can be made considerate, will usually be guarded against serious mistakes. "He who is thoughtful does not forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and considers properly what is his duty. It is a recommendation to a subordinate person to be thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the recommendation of a confidential person to be considerate, as he has often to judge according to his own discretion." --Crabb. [1913 Webster] -- {Thought"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Thought"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thoughtful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- brainy,
- brooding,
- calculating,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- charitable,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- considerate,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- courteous,
- curious,
- decorous,
- deep,
- deferential,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- delicate,
- demure,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- earnest,
- engrossed,
- enlightened,
- excogitating,
- fair,
- formal,
- frowning,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- ideative,
- indulgent,
- intellectual,
- introspective,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- logical,
- long-faced,
- loving,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- obliging,
- pensive,
- polite,
- politic,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rapt,
- rational,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- solicitous,
- somber,
- speculative,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- studious,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tolerant,
- unsmiling,
- unthoughtful,
- urbane,
- wary,
- weighty,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wistful
Words containing 'Thoughtful'
- Thought,
- Thoughtfully,
- Thoughtfulness,
- Free thought,
- High Thought,
- Higher thought,
- New Thought,
- Second thought,
- Second thoughts,
- Thought transference,
- abstract thought,
- deep in thought,
- deep thought,
- food for thought,
- freedom of thought,
- in everyone's thoughts,
- line of thought,
- lost in thought,
- perish the thought,
- school of thought,
- sudden thought,
- thought process,
- thought provoking,
- train of thought,
- well thought out,
- Low-thoughted,
- thought-image,
- thought-provoking,
- thought-reader,
- well-thought-of