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Definition of "low-thoughted" [low•-thought•ed]

  • Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects (adjective)

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Use "low-thoughted" in a sentence
  • "In spite of the low-thoughted envy which would undervalue contemporary merit, our own will be a memorable age in intellectual achievements, and we live among such philosophers and poets as surpass beyond comparison any who have appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious liberty."
  • "His life, too, is naore complete and self-sufficing, and less sordid and low-thoughted than you might imagine."
  • "The fact is that, though little of a mystic, he was from the first entirely of that temper, intellectually descended from Plato, morally from Stoicism and Christianity but more from Stoicism, which cannot be content to be "confined and pestered in this pinfold here," disdains the "low-thoughted cares" of mere bodily and temporal life, and habitually aspires to live the life of the mind and the spirit,"