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thinky

thinky adjective: tending to think, or inspire thinking.

Adjective

thinky (comparative thinkier or more thinky, superlative thinkiest or most thinky)

  1. (informal, rare) Tending to think, or inspire thinking.
    • Lipstein trades the faintly antique unease of literary reputation for the all-too-current ones of money and technology. You root for its thinky, troubled hero, even while you enjoy watching him sweat.2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of thinky

comparativethinkier
comparativemore thinky
superlativethinkiest
superlativemost thinky

Origin of thinky

From think + -y.

Questions about thinky

What does thinky mean?
Thinky means tending to think, or inspire thinking.
What part of speech is thinky?
Thinky is an adjective.

Words near thinky in the dictionary

  1. thinktanked
  2. thinktanker
  3. thinktankers
  4. thinktanking
  5. thinktanks
  6. thinky
  7. thinliness
  8. thinly
  9. thinly-veiled
  10. thinnable
  11. thinned

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