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Webster 1913 Edition
Inconsiderate
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.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.
Syn. – Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless; negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inconsiderate
INCONSID'ERATE
,Adj.
1.
Not considerate; not attending to the circumstances which regard safety or propriety; hasty; rash; imprudent; careless; thoughtless; heedless; inattentive. The young are generally inconsiderate.2.
Proceeding from heedlessness; rash; as inconsiderate conduct.3.
Not duly regarding; with of, before the subject; as inconsiderate of consequences.Definition 2024
inconsiderate
inconsiderate
English
Adjective
inconsiderate (comparative more inconsiderate, superlative most inconsiderate)
- Not considerate of others, thoughtless.
- Failing to replace the roll after using last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.
- "Even if most people use spit cups, where there's betelnut there's always one inconsiderate person who spits the buai pekpek on the sidewalk."
- (obsolete) inconsiderable
- (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Terry to this entry?)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
not considerate of others
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Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
inconsīderāte
- vocative masculine singular of inconsīderātus
References
- inconsiderate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inconsiderate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inconsiderate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.