unthinking
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7.1
- adjective
- /ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋ/
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despistado
- Everything he had would be given over to them, the ignorant, the unthinking, the undeserving, to use as carelessly as they used their lives.
Everyone else should obey, but that's different than the sort of unthinking, dreamy, sleepy, substantial life.
- Everyone else should obey, but that's different than the sort of unthinking, dreamy, sleepy, substantial life.
Examples
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Everyone else should obey, but that's different than the sort of unthinking, dreamy, sleepy, substantial life.
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(3) that democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens and that it must therefore foster and support a form of education designed to make men masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants;
Academic text (1993) -
Or had the unthinking part of her brain already been adding things up on its own?
Fiction book (2002) -
How could intelligence spring from an unthinking source?
Blog text (3) -
Aglialoro: Although too many Americans are generally unthinking about politics and elections, I have always believed that the American sense of life will come through.
Blog text (12) -
What is striking about them is the ritualized, unthinking nature of the lessons.
Blog text (30) -
Yet into the parlor I'd gone—unthinking, disconcerted.
Fiction book (2002) -
Nearly every dimension of contemporary culture, today just as in Toynbee's time, embraces the unthinking assumption that the wave of history inevitably leads onward and upward through the present to a future that will look pretty much like the present, but more so.
Blog text (33) -
Unthinking actions can lead to serious mistakes, so it is important to consider the consequences carefully.
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He made an unthinking choice that put him in a difficult situation.
Synonyms
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4.0
Not caring about how your words or actions may hurt others
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6.3
Not thinking about how actions hurt other people
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8.8
Slow to understand or think clearly
Slow and crude in thinking and behavior
A person who does not think carefully before acting
Not planning ahead or thinking about the future
Antonyms
How Alert
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unthinking is built from un- 'not' plus think 'to use your mind', and it can also mean being inattentive or slow to use reason. That's why we call a person or behaviour unthinking when they act without paying attention or without careful thought.