Thoughtful

a.	1.	Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. - Pope.
	2.	Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth.
	3.	Anxious; solicitous; concerned. Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear, And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. - Prior.

Adj.	1.	thoughtful - having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
	2.	thoughtful - exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" Antonyms: thoughtless - showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"
	3.	thoughtful - acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man" Synonyms: sensible
	4.	thoughtful - taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" Synonyms: heedful, attentive
	5.	thoughtful - showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention" Synonyms: kind

accommodating, accommodative, affable, agreeable, analytical, brainy, brooding, calculating, careful, caring, charitable, circumspect, civil, cogitative, cognitive, compassionate, complaisant, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, 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, helpful, ideative, indulgent, intellectual, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, kindly, lenient, logical, long-faced, loving, meditating, melancholy, mental, mindful, mindful of others, museful, musing, noetic, obliging, polite, politic, pondering, prehensive, 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

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