| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | caring, mindful |
Synonyms: |
anxious, astute, attentive, aware, benign, canny, careful, cautious, charitable, chivalrous, circumspect, civil, concerned, considerate, cooperative, courteous, deliberate, diplomatic, discreet, friendly, gallant, gracious, heedful, helpful, indulgent, kind, kindly, neighborly, obliging, observant, observative, observing, polite, prudent, regardful, responsive, sensitive, social, solicitous, tactful, unselfish, wary, well thought-out, well-bred |
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careless, heedless, inattentive, inconsiderate, uncaring, unmindful, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | thoughtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contemplative, introspective |
Synonyms: |
absorbed, analytical, attentive, brainy, calculating, cerebral, cogitative, deep, deliberative, discerning, earnest, engrossed, farsighted, grave, intellectual, intent, keen, levelheaded, logical, lost in thought, meditative, melancholy, museful, musing, pensive, philosophic, pondering, preoccupied, rapt, rational, reasonable, reasoning, reflecting, reflective, retrospective, ruminative, serious, sober, studious, subjective, thinking, wise, wistful |
Antonyms: |
idiotic, negligent, obtuse, remiss, stupid, thoughtless |
| Main Entry: | attentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | considerate |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, civil, courteous, devoted, gallant, gracious, kind, obliging, polite, respectful, solicitous, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
heedless, ignorant, inconsiderate, neglectful, unattentive |
| Main Entry: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
Synonyms: |
accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary |
Antonyms: |
careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | charitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, lenient |
Synonyms: |
all heart, benevolent, big*, bighearted, broad-minded, clement, considerate, easy, favorable, forbearing, forgiving, gracious, humane, indulgent, kindly, lenient, magnanimous, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding |
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hard, harsh, inhumane, mean, rough, severe, tough |
| Main Entry: | considerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful of others |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, amiable, attentive, benevolent, big, charitable, chivalrous, circumspect, compassionate, complaisant, concerned, cool, discreet, forbearing, generous, kind, kindly, like a sport, magnanimous, mellow, mindful, obliging, patient, polite, solicitous, sympathetic, tactful, tender, thoughtful, unselfish, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
disrespectful, impatient, inattentive, inconsiderate, mean, scornful, selfish, thoughtless, unfeeling, unmindful |
| Main Entry: | contemplative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep in thought |
Synonyms: |
attentive, cogitative, in brown study, intent, introspective, lost, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminative, speculative, thinking, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
disdainful, disregarding, negligent, rejecting, scornful, shallow, unreflective |
| Main Entry: | courteous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gentle, mannerly |
Synonyms: |
affable, attentive, ceremonious, civil, civilized, complaisant, considerate, courtly, cultivated, debonair, elegant, gallant, genteel, gracious, polished, polite, refined, respectful, soft-spoken, suave, thoughtful, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered, well-spoken |
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bad-mannered, discourteous, impolite, rude, uncivil, uncourteous, unmannerly, unrefined |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, generous |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, courteous, friendly, gracious, helpful, obliging, thoughtful, virtuous |
Antonyms: |
disobliging, indecent, unaccommodating, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
Synonyms: |
advised, aforethought, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried, designed, designful, done on purpose, express, fixed, intended, judged, meticulous, planned, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, predetermined, premeditated, prepense, projected, provident, prudent, purposed, purposeful, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, scrupulous, studied, studious, thought out, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, weighed, willful, with forethought, witting |
Antonyms: |
chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unmethodical, unsystematic, unwitting |