Meaning of INCONSIDERATE
| Pronunciation: | | `inkun'sidurit
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- [adj] lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior"
- [adj] without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions"
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| | Synonyms: | | careless, thoughtless, uncaring, unconsidered, unthinking |
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| | Antonyms: | | considerate | | |
| | See Also: | | selfish, tactless, untactful | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`con*sid"er*ate\, a. [L. inconsideratus. See
{In-} not, and {Considerate}.]
1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety;
not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty;
careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are
generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct.
It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that
ther? should be any so inconsiderate among us as to
sacrifice morality to politics. --Addison.
2. Inconsiderable. [Obs.] --E. Terry.
Syn: Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless;
negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet;
incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty.
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| | Related Terms: | | airy, arbitrary, boorish, brash, caddish, capricious, careless, casual, coarse, crude, cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, ill-bred, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvertent, inadvisable, incautious, indifferent, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, intolerant, irrational, lazy, loutish, louty, madcap, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nasty, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory, rash, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rude, senseless, sharp, shortsighted, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating, unadvised, uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconsidered, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscerning, unfeminine, unforeseeing, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unladylike, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrefined, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, vulgar, witless |
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