adj (informal) Inclined to think deeply, whether attentive or lost in thought.
- 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.
— Celia Rivenbark, You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl (2011)
- 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.
— Russell T. Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth (2011)
- 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.
— Cait Oliver, Laying the Ghost: A Return to Culloden (2013)
