Inconsiderate \In`con*sid"er*ate\, a. [L. inconsideratus. See
In- not, and Considerate.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that
there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to
sacrifice morality to politics. --Addison.
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2. Inconsiderable. [Obs.] --E. Terry.
Syn: Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless;
negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet;
incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inconsiderate
adj 1: lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others;
"shockingly inconsiderate behavior" [ant: considerate]
2: without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly
inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice
is the holding of unconsidered opinions" [syn: unconsidered]
WordNet (r) 2.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconsiderate":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
unconsidered
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