Thoughtfully

Definition

thought 1 pt, pp of THINK v thought 2 /θↄ:t/ n ၁။ [C often pl ] (က) အေတြး။ စိတ္ကူး။ ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္။ I wrote down my thoughts as they came into my head. ❍ think sad thoughts ❍ I've had a terrible thought—what if she's had an accident? ❍ Let me have your thoughts on (ie Tell what you think about) the subject. ❍ He keeps his thoughts to himself (ie does not tell others what he is thinking). (ခ) စိတ္ကူး။ အေတြး။ Although she's far away she's still in our thoughts. ❍ Her thoughts turned to (ie She started to think about) what the children were doing. ၂။ (က) [U] စိတ္ကူး။ အေတြး။ psychologists trying to explain the nature of thought ❍ be deep/ lost in thought (ie concentrating so much on one's thoughts that one is unaware of one's surroundings). (ခ) ဆင္ျခင္ျခင္း။ စဥ္းစားျခင္း။ သံုးသပ္ျခင္း။ After a moment's thought, she gave her answer. ❍ He acted without proper thought. ❍ I've read your proposal and given it some serious thought. ❍ Not enough thought has gone into this essay. ❍ Spare a thought for those less fortunate than you. ၃။ [U] သေဘာထား။ အေတြးအေခၚ။ modern/ scientific/ Greek thought. ၄။ [U,C often pl ] ~ of (doing) sth အႀကံအစည္။ အႀကံ။ စိတ္ကူး။ You can give up all/ any thought(s) of marrying Emma. ❍ The thought of resigning never crossed my mind (ie never occurred to me). ❏ second thoughts; ( US ) second thought [ IDM ] ေနာက္ေပါက္သည့္စိတ္ကူး။ We had second thoughts about buying the house when we met the neighbours. ❍ On second thoughts I think I'd better go now. ❏ that's a thought [ IDM ] ဟုတ္ပါ့။ ဟုတ္လိုက္ေလ။ ‘Why don't you try the other key?’ ‘That's a thought. ’ ❏ thoughtful /-fl/ adj ၁။ အေတြးနယ္ခ်ဲ႕ေသာ။ You're looking very thoughtful. ❍ His face took on a thoughtful expression. ၂။ စဥ္းစဥ္းစားစား (လုပ္တတ္ ကိုင္တတ္ေသာ)။ a player who has a thoughtful approach to the game. ၃။ သတိရတတ္ေသာ။ It was very thoughtful of you to send the flowers. ❏ thoughtfully /-fǝli/ adv ေလးေလးနက္နက္။ She nodded thoughtfully. ❏ thoughtfulness n [U] သတိရတတ္ျခင္း။ ေထာက္ထားတတ္ ျခင္း။ his thoughtfulness for others. ❏ thoughtless adj ေထာက္ထားစာနာမႈမရိွျခင္း။ a thoughtless remark ❍ I haven't offered you a drink. How thoughtless of me! thoughtlessly adv thoughtlessness n [U] ❏ thought-provoking adj စဥ္းစားမိေအာင္ေစ့ေဆာ္ေပးေသာ။ a thought-provoking article. ❏ without a second thought [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ He did it without a second thought for the risks involved.

Examples

1. A comforting/sobering/chilling thought
2. [thought of] : His mind was filled with thoughts of revenge.
3. [a thought comes/occurs to someone] : Another thought came to me about the new house.
4. A sudden thought occurred to him
5. just as he was leaving.
6. [the thought strikes someone] : The thought struck him that maybe they were trying to cheat him.
7. [a thought crosses/enters someone’s mind] : The thought had crossed my mind that we were taking a big risk.
8. [someone’s thoughts wander] : When she tried to consider the problem
9. her thoughts wandered.
10. [someone’s thoughts race] : I tried to be calm
11. but my thoughts were racing.
12. [read someone’s thoughts] : ‘How about a cup of coffee?’ she said
13. reading my thoughts.
14. [the thought of] : She couldn’t bear the thought of seeing him again.
15. Deep in thought
16. he did not hear the doorbell ring.
17. [thought on/about] : Do any members want to express their thoughts on this matter?
18. [have no thought of doing something] : He insists he has no thought of running for office.
19. Greek thought is not taught as much in modern schools.