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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inconsiderate
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was really inconsiderate of him not to even leave a message.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was inconsiderate, but he would surely have been in touch with her by now if he was able to.
▪ The issues members raise are related to ignorant, inconsiderate or criminal people.
▪ The relative inaccessibility of Management, the nuisance of inconsiderate car parking and consequent obstruction by Non-Residents.
▪ The self-confident leader can be insensitive and inconsiderate.
▪ The way we lived allowed us to be inconsiderate from time to time.
▪ There are a few inconsiderate people whose golfing practice may be a nuisance.
▪ When too energetic and predominant, it disposes of Credulity, and in mercantile men, leads to rash and inconsiderate speculation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconsiderate

Inconsiderate \In`con*sid"er*ate\, a. [L. inconsideratus. See In- not, and Considerate.]

  1. 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.

    It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics.
    --Addison.

  2. Inconsiderable. [Obs.]
    --E. Terry.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inconsiderate

late 15c., "done thoughtlessly," literally "not properly considered," from Latin inconsideratus "headstrong, unadvised, thoughtless," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + consideratus (see consider). Related: Inconsiderately; inconsiderateness.

Wiktionary
inconsiderate

a. 1 Not considerate of others, thoughtless. 2 (context obsolete English) inconsiderable

WordNet
inconsiderate
  1. adj. lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior" [ant: considerate]

  2. without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions" [syn: unconsidered]

Usage examples of "inconsiderate".

Holte apologized sincerely for being so inconsiderate, but reemphasized their need to return on time.

Even coarse and inconsiderate men are restrained from it by the fact that the sympathy of the woman turns naturally to the victim of physical brutality and against the bully, the Thackerayan notion to the contrary being one of the illusions of literary masculinity.

He at length concluded with again blaming the action as inconsiderate, and which, he said, was pardonable only in a child.

But it is not strange that in the apathy on this subject the novelists should be careless and inconsiderate as to the characters they produce, either as ideals or examples.

He took the work with intense seriousness, and though by nature a kindly man, not inconsiderate of others, he now joined heartily with Quintal in forcing Te Moa to perform their daily tasks in the plantations and about the house.

In other words, the besetting temptations of many men who are set as defenders of the truth in religion, as well as in other matters, is to be wild-headed, inconsiderate, selfconceited, and intolerably arrogant.

Had I heard my own words in cool blood they might have seemed hard, and my insistence inconsiderate and blamable, but my calm was only artificial, and my judgment little else than a blind clinging to the object with which I had come.

Through sheer willpower and mental discipline, I managed to ignore the surly human and inconsiderate android drivers who clogged the road like horny adolescents, all trying to access the same X-rated Web server at the same time.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

Making a cop ignore a crime while geeks from Milwaukee are pointing camcorders at him would be, like, inconsiderate, you know?

Clearly this was a matter where the word 'honest' was relative, and it was inconsiderate of Mrs Cluey, to say the least, to phrase her question with no perceptible bias.

Since the accident, he had become known as Wombat the Marauder to his victims, mostly inconsiderate dorks who had broken Caf rules only to find this man gripping them in an old Bosnian or Tunisian martial arts hold that shorted out the major meridians of their nervous system, and shouting at them in a percussive accent that crackled like fat ground beef on a red-hot steam griddle.

It was Mr James Wendover, carrying a small cloak-bag, and wearing the resentful expression of one forced, by the inconsiderate behaviour of his relations, to endure the discomforts of a night-journey to Bath on the Mail Coach.

The inconsiderate courage of Torismond was tempted to urge the pursuit, till he unexpectedly found himself, with a few followers, in the midst of the Scythian wagons.

To reduce all the particular customs to a general one would be a very inconsiderate thing, even at present when our princes find everywhere the most passive obedience.