thoughty
/ˈθɔdi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[...] "there was no questioning Glenn's ability. He was a very 'thoughty' guy. And he was also a very sly one — for Glenn Miller.""
- ""Yoi, yoi, it's always the other guys," the Ganymedean snorted in disgust. "But SF is the phonetic equivalent of 'as if in Milt Gross dialect, a very thoughty parallel.""
- "And Abe — she remembered him from one time Mr. Lincoln brought him to town, a thoughty talky little thing that noticed everything and had a word for it. He wasn't more than ten or eleven now, but had done some remarkable growing."
- "I have been thoughty of my grandmother all week, every day actually. Thoughty is a word straight from Gramma's dictionary and is defined by an inner cognitive awareness of someone. It is more than thoughtfulness. It is a more intense character trait as it involves the spirit on a much deeper level. When I am thoughty of someone, they are not only on my mind, but in my heart, and connected to and felt by my spirit. This is what it means to be thoughty."
- "Killing me now, for whatever reason, was going to take a lot of guts and a lot of thought, and I planned to be much gutsier and thoughtier."
Etymology
From Middle English thoughty, thoghty, equivalent to thought + -y. Cognate with Scots thochty, thouchty (“thoughty”), Dutch gedachtig (“thoughty”), German gedächtig (“suspicious”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθɔdi/
- British English: /ˈθɔːti/
Usage
Inflected Forms
thoughtier (comparative)
more thoughty (comparative)
thoughtiest (superlative)
most thoughty (superlative)