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Thoughtful vs Contemplate - What's the difference?

thoughtful | contemplate |

As an adjective thoughtful

is demonstrating thought or careful consideration.

As a verb contemplate is

to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.

thoughtful

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
  • Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
  • Antonyms

    * thoughtless

    Derived terms

    * thoughtfully * thoughtfulness

    contemplate

    English

    Verb

    (contemplat)
  • To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
  • * Milton
  • To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
  • * Byron
  • We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
  • To consider as a possibility.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
  • * Kent
  • If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

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