Thoughtful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thoughtful \Thought"ful\, a.
     1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative;
        as, a man of thoughtful mind.
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              War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades.


                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the
        mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain;
        thoughtful in seeking truth. --Glanvill.
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     3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned.
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              Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear,
              And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care.
                                                    --Prior.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thoughtful
       adj 1: having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
       2: exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a
          thoughtful paper" [ant: {thoughtless}]
       3: acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible
          young man" [syn: {sensible}]
       4: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful
          of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what
          they were doing" [syn: {heedful}, {attentive}] [ant: {heedless}]
       5: showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was
          thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed
          thoughtful attention" [syn: {kind}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "thoughtful":
     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