thoughty

From Middle English thoughty, thoghty, equivalent to thought +‎ -y. Cognate with Scots thochty (“thoughty”), Dutch gedachtig (“thoughty”), German gedächtig (“suspicious”).

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

1. thoughtful; given to serious thought or reflection; attentive; intelligent
   • 1980, George Thomas Simon, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra:

     [...] "there was no questioning Glenn's ability. He was a very 'thoughty' guy. And he was also a very sly one — for Glenn Miller."

   • 1981, Martin Harry Greenberg, Fantastic lives:

     "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."

   • 2001, Richard Slotkin, Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln:

     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.

   • 2007, Ma Kimberly Quinn Smith, ‎Kimberly Quinn Smith Ma, A Full Moon Rising...and the Tao of Menopause:

     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.

   • 2009, Lonnie Cruse, Fifty-seven heaven:

     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.

   • 2011, Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl:

     Ditto my nightly hit of Marketplace, a thoughty economy-based show on NPR. It never hit home until Salem's wise and loving and occasionally-during-sweeps-months demon-possessed psychiatrist and her studly husband got the ax.

   • 2011, Russell T. Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth:

     Prior to sampling, Mike characterized himself as a “thoughty” person, and it might have been tempting to launch an investigation of the characteristics of his thinking.

   • 2013, Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden:

     “Such a thoughty man! And easy on the eyes, as well! Well done, my man! You're such a doat!” She raised her cup of mead in salute.

• contemplative
• reflective