Thoughtless \Thought"less\, adv.
1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a
thoughtless person, or act.
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2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] --Johnson.
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3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
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Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
thoughtless
adj 1: showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into
thoughtless bickering" [ant: thoughtful]
2: marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have
always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals;
we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D.
Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's
crying" [syn: heedless, unheeding] [ant: heedful]
3: without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying
of a great princess on being informed that the people had
no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: uncaring, unthinking]
4: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or
consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the
proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow";
"crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: careless(p),
thoughtless(p), regardless]
WordNet (r) 2.0
217 Moby Thesaurus words for "thoughtless":
absent-minded, airy, apish, arbitrary, artless, asinine, batty,
befooled, beguiled, besotted, blank, blankminded, brainless, brash,
buffoonish, calm, capricious, careless, casual, cockeyed, crazy,
credulous, cursory, daffy, daft, dazed, degage, discourteous,
disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, dizzy, doting,
dumb, easygoing, empty, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous,
featherbrained, featherheaded, feckless, flaky, flippant, fluttery,
fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, forgetful, free and easy,
frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained,
giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, goofy, grasshopper,
gulled, half-assed, happy-go-lucky, harebrain, harebrained, hasty,
heedless, hotheaded, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered,
ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, imbecile,
impolite, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, inadept, inadvertent,
inadvisable, inane, inapt, inattentive, incautious, incogitant,
inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, inefficient,
inept, inexpedient, inexpert, infatuated, injudicious, inobservant,
insane, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, irrational, kooky,
lazy, loony, mad, madcap, maudlin, mediocre, mindless, misadvised,
misguided, moronic, myopic, neglectful, negligent, nirvanic, nutty,
oblivious, offhand, passive, pedestrian, perfunctory, poor,
quietistic, rash, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated,
reasonless, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, respectless,
rude, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, selfish,
senseless, sentimental, sharp, shatterbrained, shiftless,
shortsighted, silly, skill-less, stupid, tactless, thoughtfree,
thriftless, tranquil, unaccommodating, unadvised, unapt,
uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant,
unconsidered, uncooperative, undeft, undexterous, undextrous,
undiplomatic, undiscerning, uneconomical, unfacile, unforeseeing,
ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unideaed,
unintellectual, unintelligent, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing,
unnoting, unobliging, unobservant, unobserving, unoccupied,
unprepared, unproficient, unproviding, unready, unreasonable,
unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unseeing,
unsensible, unskillful, unsolicitous, unsound, untactful,
unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, unwise, vacant, vacuous,
wacky, wet, witless, wrecking
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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