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low-thoughted

low-thoughted adjective: having one's thoughts directed towards mean or insignificant subjects.

Adjective

low-thoughted (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) Having one's thoughts directed towards mean or insignificant subjects.
    • In spite of the low-thoughted envy which would undervalue contemporary merit, our own will be a memorable age in intellectual achievements, and we live among such philosophers and poets as surpass beyond comparison any who have appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious...Early C19, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
    • Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care,
      Confined and pestered in this pinfold here1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

Questions about low-thoughted

What does low-thoughted mean?
Low-thoughted means having one's thoughts directed towards mean or insignificant subjects.
What part of speech is low-thoughted?
Low-thoughted is an adjective.

Words near low-thoughted in the dictionary

  1. low-support
  2. low-surface-brightness galaxies
  3. low-surface-brightness galaxy
  4. low-T
  5. low-tech
  6. low-thoughted
  7. low-toned
  8. low-top fade
  9. low-value
  10. low-velocity
  11. low-water mark

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