thoughtless
37
4.0
- adjective
- /ˈθɔt.ləs/
:
inconsiderado
- His thoughtless remarks hurt her feelings during the meeting.
- a thoughtless act
- say thoughtless things
Again, not sure if I'm just being spoiled to think this is a bit thoughtless of them.
- Again, not sure if I'm just being spoiled to think this is a bit thoughtless of them.
- I mean, dude, I, I, I'm so thoughtless with the way that I actually do stuff in the kitchen.
- But it is a whole nest, a not a a mess of thoughtless contradictions that have to be untangled.
Examples
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Maybe we should consider the situations when praise can be empty, overused, thoughtless, or motivated by the wrong reasons.
Academic text (1993) -
Indeed, the danger of this aberration becomes more and more threatening due to the thoughtless politics of mass media.
Academic text (2003) -
It's quite amazing... how many thoughtless words one can speak.
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What a thoughtless present to give a woman.
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How thoughtless of me to be doing all this in a society where no one else is interested in making money, present company included.
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Are you thoughtless in your remarks?
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Albert is one of those young, thoughtless fools; there are thousands of them.
Fiction book (1995) -
It’s you who must forgive a thoughtless fool!
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He's thoughtless and impulsive and worst of all, he's proud of it.
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Several students remembered awkward situations in past technology education classrooms resulting from thoughtless jokes or comments by males.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
39
4.1
Not thinking or paying attention before acting
36
4.1
Not caring about other people's feelings or needs
18
4.2
Not showing concern for other people's feelings or needs
5
4.9
Showing no care for other people's feelings when speaking or acting
4
4.9
Not careful about how words or actions might hurt other people
1
6.3
Not thinking about how actions hurt other people
Antonyms
How Considerate
151
3.7
165
2.1
68
2.5
37
4.0
18
4.2
46
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thoughtless is made of thought, meaning 'thinking', and the small piece -less, meaning 'without'. So thoughtless literally means 'without thinking', which is why we use it for someone who acts without thinking about other people or the results of their actions.