单词 | thoughty |
释义 | thoughtyadj. Now Scottish and U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 10 Biplex, twofold or dowble þouȝti. 2. a. (a) Pensive, melancholy, anxious. archaic. (b) Given to thought, showing serious thought, thoughtful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive thoughtfulc1300 pensivea1393 pensya1450 thoughtya1450 pensiful?c1450 pensative1574 melancholy1600 pensived1609 penseroso1813 penserose1831 penseful1865 a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 80 Who so þat thoghty is, is wo-be-gon. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 73 (MED) J was ther of wunderliche abashed and thouhti. 1673 J. Dare Counsellor Manners 35 Thou must not be melancholy, and thoughty in that place, where any one is, as if thou wert snatcht and placed without thy self. 1702 W. Wishart Serm. 33 A minister should be a very thoughty man. 1726 J. Stevens tr. A. de Herrera Tordesillas Gen. Hist. Amer. III. ii. vii. iv. 36 Before Cortes had receiv'd the Letters from Sandoval,..he was very thoughty, believing that Force was too much for a Supply. 1823 M. Corbett & M. Corbett Petticoat Tales II. 110 (Jam.) Fanny is two years younger than I am, and not so thoughty, as Philip says. 1876 D. Gilmour Paisley Weavers 140 Nae thochty man cud pit up wi' sic neglegence. 1903 G. Keats (title) The Roman road; the balance; the thoughty ones. 1947 Amer. Speech 22 157 On the Lum and Abner show, November 19, 1946, one of the characters said, ‘She's a thoughty woman..the thoughtiest woman in town.’ 1998 R. W. Balch in W. W. Zellner & M. Petrowsky Sects, Cults, & Spiritual Communities iv. 88 Outspoken members were considered too ‘thoughty’ and their ideas were dismissed as worldly ‘conceptions’. 2007 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 23 Apr. 19 I wanted to write exactly the kind of relentless, thoughty global thriller that I would love to read myself. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [adjective] carefulc1050 soignous1340 mindfula1382 tentivec1386 presentc1395 attendant1432 tendable?c1450 advicefulc1454 thoughtyc1480 neara1500 respective1525 heedful1548 heedy1548 prick-eared?1550 attendable1552 attentive1577 tentible1603 observative1609 unpreoccupied1643 advertent1646 presential1652 inspectivea1684 tent1789 attentful- the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] busyOE carefula1000 orne?c1225 intentivec1290 soignous1340 curiousc1386 diligentc1400 well-advisedc1405 thoughtfulc1450 thoughtyc1480 keepful1489 tentfula1525 respective1525 solicit?1526 heedful1548 heedy1548 tentyc1555 chare1564 respectful1585 tentible1603 solicitous1610 observant1627 care-taking1825 leery1911 c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 706 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 21 Besy..til infourme ȝu in cheryte, & in sawle hele thochty to be. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vi. 1608 As he past apon aday In til huntynge..On his gamyn al thouchty. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxliiii Euer is their contemplacion in ful of thoughty studye to plesaunce. c. Considerate, thoughtful of others. ΚΠ 1664 J. Carstaires Let. in W. Ferrie Notices of Life J. Carstaires (1843) 106 Your freind..is more thoughtie about you than himselfe. 1953 J. H. Giles Kentuckians xxii. 261 ‘Thought we'd come down and see could we help out.’ ‘Well, that's right thoughty of you.’ 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 232 That was mighty thoughty of you. Derivatives ˈthoughtiness n. (a) melancholy, pensiveness (archaic); (b) thoughtfulness, thinking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > pensiveness pensiveheadc1425 pensivenessc1425 pensienessc1450 pensifulnessc1450 thoughtfulness1594 melancholy?1614 thoughtinessa1658 pensive1664 a1658 J. Durham Pract. Expos. X. Commandements (1675) x. 459 That thoughtiness and anxious carefulness which often is in bargains making,..is we conceive especially pointed at here, there is a sutable carefulness, which..is consistent with lawful diligence. a1709 J. Nimmo Narr. (1889) 4 My father..was resolved to use authoretie qch was not pleasing to me, & increassed my thoghtines. 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots 12 Whilk o ye can eik hauf an ell til his heicht bi thochtiness? 2002 X. J. Kennedy in A. Finch & K. Varnes Exalt. of Forms iii. 208 There's always the danger that a poem will turn into a clogged mishmash of excessive thoughtiness. 2008 J. Bryan Looking Inward v. 196 Hoccleve initially presents his solitary thoughtiness, his poisonous flirtations with despair, not as the cause of his social alienation, but as the result. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1425 |
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