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# thoughtfully

«thoughtfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a way that shows careful thinking, slowly and with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Thoughtfully means in a way that shows careful thinking, slowly and with attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoughtfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

how a character speaks or looks while thinking hard, often before answering a question

### examples

- "Two men's load!" said Dermod thoughtfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoughtfully/#x1)
- She nodded thoughtfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoughtfully/#x2)
- He read the map thoughtfully before he chose the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoughtfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thoughtfully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thoughtfully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.