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unˈthoughtful, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not taking thought, unmindful or regardless, of something.
1456Sir G. Haye Govt. Princes Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 141 Wyne..makis man to be unthochtfull of his honour. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. x. 220/2 He was not unthoughtful of the Time when publick Ones [sc. sermons] might be expected from him. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 106 How unthoughtful of the Affair in hand? 1887R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) III. 71 We have foes who are not unthoughtful of us.
2. Unthinking, thoughtless.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xxxvii. (1536) 67 They as vnthoughtfull,..leaue the iust trauayle, and take vniust idelnes. a1667Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose, Solitude iv, Here let me, careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 62 People..that have..a lazy, unthoughtful, list⁓less, yawning way of talking of Religion. 1715J. Barker Exilius i. 72 The vulgar Part of the Africans are extremely unthoughtful and unpolished. a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 10 Without which poetry becomes..evaporated into a hazy, unthoughtful, day-dreaming. 1895C. Scott Apple Orchards 131 The reckless, unthoughtful, but ill⁓directed youth of to-day.
Hence unˈthoughtfully adv.; unˈthoughtfulness.
1661J. Fell Hammond 205 During the current of that Tyranny,..he kept a constant equable serenity and unthoughtfulness in outward accidents. 1701Norris Ideal World i. vi. 322 Never was any question..more ignorantly and unthoughtfully moved. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1736) IV. 185 Should he begin by this unthoughtfulness of enterprize, it would render him..formidable. 1884E. W. Benson in Life (1899) II. 29 A ceaseless reproach to the unthoughtfulness of this busy existence. |