Synonyms and Antonyms of thoughtful
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given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others
- a thoughtful offer to watch the neighbors' children on moving day
- a thoughtful manager who understands that people's families should be more important than their jobs
brotherly, good, good-hearted, helpful, hospitable, kindhearted, kindly, neighborly, nice
caring, compassionate, sympathetic, tender
chivalrous, courteous, courtly, gallant, gracious, polite
diplomatic, tactful
deferential, dutiful, obliging, regardful, respectful
altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, humane, selfless, unselfish
charitable, generous, magnanimous
inattentive, uncaring, unheeding
inhospitable, unkind, unkindly
ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil, unmannerly
unhelpful
malevolent, malicious, mean, spiteful
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decided on as a result of careful thought
- a thoughtful argument for military action
aforethought, premeditated, prepense
educated, informed
intentional, purposeful
designed, intended, planned, projected
careful, meticulous
foresighted, forethoughtful, provident, prudent
half-cocked, ill-advised
chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, random
aimless, desultory, purposeless
hasty, hurried, rushed
abrupt, impetuous, sudden
automatic, extemporaneous, impromptu, instinctive, spontaneous
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given to or marked by long, quiet thinking
- was a quiet and thoughtful child who rarely spoke but when he did, he almost always had something worthwhile to say
introspective, retrospective, self-reflective
earnest, grave, sedate, serious, serious-minded, severe, sober, solemn, somber (or sombre), weighty
philosophical (also philosophic)
analytic (or analytical), logical, rational
deliberate, purposeful
absentminded, abstracted, preoccupied
featherbrained, flighty, flippant, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, scatterbrained
brainless, mindless, silly, thoughtless, unth
