inconsiderate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English considerate
English inconsiderate
From in- + considerate.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsiderate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inconsiderate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not considerate of others.
pos: adj
examples: Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.
“It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”
Bayliss and his father were talking together before dinner when Claude came in and was so inconsiderate as to put up a window, though he knew his brother hated a draft.
“Ann Landers claims drop-in visits are inconsiderate,” he said.
gloss: Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And all the unsettled humours of the land,
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, […]
Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
To make hazard of new fortunes here:
[…] the wise and considerate Men of the World, by a right and careful employment of their Thoughts, and Reason, attained true Notions in this, as well as other things; whilst the lazy and inconsiderate part of Men, making the far greater number, took up their Notions, by chance, from common Tradition, and vulgar Conceptions, without much beating their heads about them.
They Pray with Fervour and a fix’d, Attention, never turning like too many Inconsiderate Christians in our Noisy Churches, to behold what People pass behind them;
[…] the most danger is from those inconsiderate and unexperienced pilots, who think a ship may be managed and conducted with equal ease and safety among shoals, as their own small vessels to which they have been accustomed,
[…] Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money-matters; he might naturally be rather attentive than otherwise to them;
gloss: Resulting from insufficient consideration.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences:
And having given us this inconsiderate Description of Cold, they [the Classick Authors] commonly take leave of the subject, as if it deserved no further handling, then could be afforded it in a few Lines,
[…] to such a choice are many worthy women betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, raised and propagated, no doubt, by the author of all delusion, That a reformed Rake makes the best husband.
Do me not the injustice to imagine I now require any particulars to convince me of your innocence, and of my own inconsiderate conclusions.
Charlotte Stanhope did not in the least conceive that her new friend was a woman whom nothing could entrap into an inconsiderate marriage […]
gloss: Of too little value to be considered.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] when they had sold any one of their bullooks to us, for a little inconsiderate peece of brasse, if we did not presently knock him down, they would by the same call, make the poor creature break from us and run unto them again, and then there was no getting them out of their hands, but by giving them more brasse,
[…] to wrest the Law to our convenience
Is no small, inconsiderate Work?
Related words: inconsiderately
inconsiderateness
inconsideration
tactless
thoughtless
Derived words: inconsideracy
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