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Definition of Inconsiderate

1. Adjective. Lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others. "Shockingly inconsiderate behavior"

2. Adjective. Without proper consideration or reflection. "Prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions"

Definition of Inconsiderate

1. a. 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.

Definition of Inconsiderate

1. Adjective. Not considerate of others, thoughtless. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) inconsiderable ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inconsiderate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconsiderate

inconsequence inconsequences inconsequencies inconsequency inconsequent inconsequentia inconsequential inconsequentiality inconsequentially inconsequentialness

inconsequently inconsequentness inconsiderable inconsiderably inconsideracy inconsiderate (current term) inconsiderately inconsiderateness inconsideration inconsistence

inconsistences inconsistencies inconsistency inconsistent inconsistently inconsistentness inconsisting inconsolable inconsolableness inconsolably

Literary usage of Inconsiderate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"OF THE GRAVITY OF THE AMERICANS, AND WHY IT DOES NOT PREVENT THEM FROM OFTEN DOING inconsiderate THINGS. MEN who live in democratic countries do not value ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"OF THE GRAVITY OF THE AMERICANS, AND WHY IT DOES NOT PREVENT THEM FROM OFTEN COMMITTING inconsiderate ACTIONS. MEN who live in democratic countries do not ..."

3. Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"She is not often so inconsiderate—so irritable." The verbal testimony of two friends of Caroline's to her cousin's character augmented her favorable opinion ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"remember the inconsiderate prejudice with which our religious writers are accustomed to cry down the polite Greek and cry up the devout Jew. ..."

5. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"Its inconsiderate treatment of Hayley.—Dinner of the Prince Regent.—Holland House and Lord Holland.—Neutralization of Whig advocacy. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"An inconsiderate person ; one who is inclined to run all hazards quite careless of the consequences ; a madman. Line. ..."

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