inconsiderate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=con=sid=er=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

inconsiderate, a. [L. inconsideratus. See In- not, and Considerate.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics."  [1913 Webster]
•  Inconsiderable.  E. Terry.

Syn. -- Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless; negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inconsiderate, adj.
1 (of a person or action) thoughtless, rash.
2 lacking in regard for the feelings of others.

Derivative

inconsiderately adv. inconsiderateness n. inconsideration n.

Etymology

L inconsideratus (as IN-(1), CONSIDERATE)

THESAURUS

inconsiderate

airy, arbitrary, boorish, brash, caddish, capricious, careless, casual, coarse, crude, cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, ill-bred, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvertent, inadvisable, incautious, indifferent, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, intolerant, irrational, lazy, loutish, louty, madcap, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nasty, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory, rash, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rude, senseless, sharp, shortsighted, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating, unadvised, uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconsidered, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscerning, unfeminine, unforeseeing, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unladylike, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrefined, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, vulgar, witless

ROGET THESAURUS

inconsiderate

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

Incogitancy

N incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding, fatuity thoughtlessness, vacuity, couch potato, vegetable, vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous, absent, diverted, irrational narrow-minded, unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered, off one's mind, incogitable, not to be thought of, absence d'esprit, pabulum pictura pascit inani.

Inattention

N inattention, inconsideration, inconsiderateness, oversight, inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard, supineness, etourderie, want of thought, heedlessness, insouciance, abstraction, absence of mind, absorption of mind, preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction, inattentive, unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning, inadvertent, mindless, regardless, respectless, listless, blind, deaf, bird-witted, hand over head, cursory, percursory, giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained, unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele, offhand, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick, giddy, giddy as a goose, wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying, heedless, careless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, absent, abstracted, distrait, absentminded, lost, lost in thought, wrapped in thought, rapt, in the clouds, bemused, dreaming on other things, musing on other things, preoccupied, engrossed, daydreaming, in a reverie, off one's guard, napping, dreamy, caught napping, disconcerted, distracted, put out, inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly, per incuriam, sub silentio, Int, stand at ease, stand easy!, the attention wanders, one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting, it never entered into one's head, the mind running on other things, one's thoughts being elsewhere, had it been a bear it would have bitten you.

Neglect

N neglect, carelessness, trifling, negligence, omission, oversight, laches, default, supineness, inattention, nonchalance, imprudence, recklessness, slovenliness improvidence, noncompletion, inexactness, paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric), trifler, waiter on Providence, Micawber, neglecting, unmindful, negligent, neglectful, heedless, careless, thoughtless, perfunctory, remiss, feebleness, inconsiderate, uncircumspect, incircumspect, off one's guard, unwary, unwatchful, unguarded, offhand, supine, inattentive, insouciant, imprudent, reckless, slovenly inexact, improvident, neglected, unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed, shunted, shelved, unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored, abandoned, buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel, negligently, hand over head, anyhow, in an unguarded moment, per incuriam, Int, never mind, no matter, let it pass, out of sight, out of mind.