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unˈthinking, ppl. a.
[un-1 10.]
1. Not exercising the faculty of thought; thoughtless; unreflecting, undiscriminating.
1676Glanvill Ess. Philos. & Relig. i. 29 The shallow, unthinking Vulgar, are sure of all things. 1683D. A. Art Converse 14 Women are generally an unthinking sort of Creatures. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. vii, I was no longer a pert unthinking coxcomb. 1780Mirror No. 72, The effect of scenes like that I have described, on minds neither frigid nor unthinking. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 393 Even the unthinking King showed some signs of concern. 1868Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 311 Then swelled his vain unthinking heart with pride.
absol.1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) p. ii, Atheism takes none But the Un-thinking and Debauch'd. 1769Robertson Chas. V, ii. Wks. 1813 V. 238 Even the most unthinking were shocked. 1873Proctor Expanse Heav. 298 That steadfastness which, to the unthinking, would have had no significance.
2. Characterized by absence of thought.
1688R. Pepys Let. in S. Pepys' Life (1841) II. 127 The unthinking conduct of a violent passion. 1693T. Creech in Dryden's Juvenal xiii. (1697) 324 All laugh to find Unthinking Plainness so o'er-spread thy Mind. 1709Addison Tatler No. 75 ⁋8 You see a deep Attention and a certain unthinking Sharpness in every Countenance. 1796F. Burney Camilla I. 25 Even in the unthinking period of earliest youth. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. xi, When I see the unthinking and lavish idolatry you manifest. 1873Black Pr. Thule xiv, She walked on, in a blind and unthinking fashion.
3. Not possessing the faculty of thought.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 299 If all Being..may..arise out of the dark Womb of unthinking Matter. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §10 They who assert that figure, motion,..do exist without the mind in unthinking substances. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. IV. 8, I can never conceive, that a capacity of thinking can be the effect of the combination and motion of unthinking elements. |