单词 | thoughtful-looking |
释义 | > as lemmasthoughtful-looking With adjectives, as thoughtful-browed, thoughtful-faced, thoughtful-looking, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adjective] > engaged in contemplation, musing pensivec1400 contemplantc1429 musing1530 contemplating1602 reflexing1606 wrappeda1616 musefula1618 cogitabundous1627 meditant1631 meditating1645 cogitabund1649 meditabund1681 speculating1787 thoughtful-looking1827 1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover II. x. 154 D'ye see that thoughtful-looking, bony miscreant, that has a look of godliness in the midst of all his villany? 1834 Angus Album 46 Soft, on her fair, and thoughtful seeming brow, A shadowy pensiveness was seen to grow. 1848 Home Life 78 A pale, thoughtful-looking girl who had hitherto taken no part in the conversation. a1849 J. C. Mangan Lay Bell in Poems (1859) 35 He alone is thoughtfulsouled. 1853 Youth's Mag. 1 70 A tall, grave, thoughtful-browed man, with very penetrating dark eyes. 1857 Christian's Penny Mag. (Congregational Union Eng. & Wales) 12 224/1 The thoughtful-faced little lad resumed his duties. 1867 W. H. G. Kingston Foxholme Hall 205 They certainly all did credit to Lochaber, from the eldest, who was a thoughtful-browed Highlander, to Dugald the youngest, a slight active lad of nineteen. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 6/3 Great, round, thoughtful-looking heads. 1955 Times 7 Nov. 11/6 By no means are they playing consistently the worst football in the Championship. There is still a thoughtful looking shape about their game. 1999 L. Owens Dark River i. 4 An owl began a deep, thoughtful-sounding hooing [sic]. 2000 N. Kagan Cinema Stanley Kubrick (ed. 3) xiii. 219 A thoughtful-faced youth pipes up mockingly: ‘Are you John Wayne?’ 2003 J. H. Moor Turing Test iv. 47 No matter how intelligent or thoughtful seeming the computer's conversation, revelation of what's hidden in it overrides the conversational evidence. < as lemmas |
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