Unwise
[ʌn'waɪz] or [,ʌn'waɪz]
Definition
(adj.) showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; 'an unwise investor is soon impoverished' .
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
Checker: Raffles
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Foolish, injudicious, indiscreet, imprudent, ill-advised, ill-judged.
Editor: Shanna
Definition
adj. not wise: injudicious: foolish.—n. Unwis′dom want of wisdom: ignorance: foolishness.—adv. Unwise′ly not wisely or prudently.
Editor: Lou
Examples
- To-day it is as if a hungry man asked for an indigestible food, and we let him go hungry because he was unwise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And a still more extravagant and unwise claim made by the church was the claim to the power of _dispensation_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet do not, my gentle friend; for, all childish and unwise as they are, they have become a part of me, and I dare not expect to shake them off. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was unwise to quit my sheet-anchor of calm even for an instant; it deprived me of an advantage and transferred it to her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was so natural, yet so unwise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Seeing that Eustacia sat on in hesitation he added, Perhaps you think it unwise to be seen in the same road with me after the events of last summer? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Is it not very unwise in us to go on spending the little money we've got when I can keep down expenditures by an honest occupation? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In my position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place one's self under obligations. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then the French Government did an unwise thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I answered him by assuming it: to refuse would, I felt, have been unwise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Lou