Thoughtfully

Definitions: Thoughtfully

Thoughtfully

Adverb

1. In a thoughtful manner; "he stared thoughtfully out the window".

2. Showing thoughtfulness; "he had thoughtfully brought with him some food".

Date "thoughtfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Antonym: thoughtlessly (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thoughtfully

English words defined with "thoughtfully": contemplate ♦ Museful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thoughtfully": Appetite ♦ Christian ♦ grammar ♦ liver ♦ story ♦ tortoise. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Doing theology thoughtfully is really very like thoughtfully doing all sorts of other things : (the theologians' craft) (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	The Chancellor took it haughtily, drank it off thoughtfully, smiled benevolently on the happy waiter as he set down the empty glass, and began.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He seemed to be thoughtfully seeking, beyond the apparent life, for its cause, its explanation, or its excuse.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The driver chewed as rhythmically, as thoughtfully, as a cow.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
John E. Sununu	Well, look, people in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue. There's a lot of Democrat rhetoric going back years, scare tactics, trying to scare seniors about Social Security.
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"Thoughtfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Thoughtfully" is used about 730 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.86%	729	9,262
Noun (proper)	0.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	730	N/A

Language		Translations for "thoughtfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		周道地. (various references)

German		nachdenklich (contemplative, contemplatively, meditative, meditatively, pensive, ruminative, thoughtful, thought-provoking), gedankenvolle. (various references)

Greek		σκεπτικώσ (broodingly). (various references)

Hungarian		meggondoltan (coolly, prudentially, prudently), mélyen (deep, deep in thought, deeply, low, sore, sound, soundly, to indent), komolyan (bona fide, earnestly, gravely, in earnest, seriously, severely, sincerely, sore, sternly), figyelmesen (attentively), elmélkedően, elgondolkozva (in a brown study), előzékenyen (accommodatingly, obligingly). (various references)

Italian		pensierosamente. (various references)

Korean		신중하게 (Deliberately, Deliberatively, Discreetly, Prudentially, Prudently). (various references)

Pig Latin		oughtfullythay

Russian		внимательно (advertently, attentively, closely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		smotreno (carefully, vigilantly, warily), pažljivo (carefully, cautiously, intently, thoroughly), ozbiljno (earnest: in earnest, earnestly, gravely, seriously, sternly), dubokomisleno. (various references)

Spanish		atentamente (attentively, mindfully, obligingly, sharply). (various references)

Ukranian		уважно (closely, nicely, observantly, sharply), замислено. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "thoughtfully": forethoughtfully. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thoughtfully" (pronounced thô"tfulē)
5	-t f u l ē	artfully, delightfully, fitfully, frightfully, gratefully, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, tactfully, tastefully, wistfully.
4	-f u l ē	anencephaly, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, forcefully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, lawfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, ruefully, skillfully, successfully, tearfully, thankfully, truthfully, unlawfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully.
3	-u l ē	abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-g-h-h-l-l-o-t-t-u-u-y"
	-2 letters: thoughtful.
	-4 letters: youthful.
	-5 letters: thought, toughly.
	Words containing the letters "f-g-h-h-l-l-o-t-t-u-u-y"
	+4 letters: forethoughtfully.
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