Inconsiderate
[ɪnkən'sɪd(ə)rət] or [,ɪnkən'sɪdərət]
Definition
(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' .
Edited by Adela--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Inconsiderable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Thoughtless, careless, heedless, inattentive, inadvertent, negligent, imprudent, indiscreet, rash, hasty, giddy, headlong, hare-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONSIDERATE]
Editor: Lucia
Definition
adj. not considerate: thoughtless: inattentive.—adv. Inconsid′erately.—ns. Inconsid′erateness Inconsiderā′tion.
Editor: Warren
Examples
- She is not often so inconsiderate, so irritable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tom, you are inconsiderate: you expect too much of your sister. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- St. Clare means well, I am bound to believe; but men are constitutionally selfish and inconsiderate to woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I suppose you mean well; but it is very inconsiderate,--very! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Everybody is so inconsiderate! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It's very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare, said the lady, to insist on my talking and looking at things. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- St. Clare, you really are inconsiderate. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- All we, with whom you come in contact, are machines, which you thrust here and there, inconsiderate of their feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No one spoke against Miss Ainley except lively young gentlemen and inconsiderate old ones, who declared her hideous. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Although her disposition was gay, and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They looked at the little creature with a wonder that did not diminish, and the schoolmaster said: 'I am sorry your fine ladies are so inconsiderate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I only said--' 'You only said something weak and inconsiderate,' he replied. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I shouldn't have expected that _you_ would bring up all these remembrances of my troubles to me,--it's so inconsiderate! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But on this occasion, the consequences involved in her extremely inconsiderate proposal were of a nature to make me pause. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct! Jane Austen. Emma.
Editor: Warren