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thoughtier

thoughtier is the comparative form of thoughty.

Meaning of thoughty

Adjective

thoughty (comparative thoughtier or more thoughty, superlative thoughtiest or most thoughty)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) Given to serious thought or reflection; either attentive or pensive.
    • His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23

Questions about thoughtier

What is thoughtier the comparative form of?
Thoughtier is the comparative form of thoughty.

Words near thoughtier in the dictionary

  1. thoughtful
  2. thoughtfull
  3. thoughtfullness
  4. thoughtfully
  5. thoughtfulness
  6. thoughtier
  7. thoughtiest
  8. thoughtless
  9. thoughtlessly
  10. thoughtlessness
  11. thoughtlet

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