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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thoughtless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the thoughtless use of nuclear technology
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in fact, competition between the two men to produce the first pulp led to hurried, thoughtless design.
▪ It was thoughtless of Miguel to take the vehicle - but maybe he'd needed it in a hurry.
▪ Many years before that, man has thought of the animal as being stupid and thoughtless.
▪ That certainly wasn't the intent, and we're sorry for any hurt this thoughtless headline caused.
▪ This thoughtless response is so much easier than confronting the real reasons, as it has an inevitability about it.
▪ We have caused enough harm by our thoughtless, irresponsible, selfish behaviour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thoughtless

Thoughtless \Thought"less\, adv.

  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

  2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.]
    --Johnson.

  3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.

    Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain.
    --Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Thought"less*ly, adv. -- Thought"less*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thoughtless

1610s, "heedless, imprudent," from thought + -less. Meaning "inconsiderate of others" is from 1794. Related: Thoughtlessly; thoughtlessness.

Wiktionary
thoughtless

a. 1 Marked by or showing lack of due thought or care; careless. 2 inconsiderate, inattentive. 3 Lacking thought or consideration.

WordNet
thoughtless
  1. adj. showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" [ant: thoughtful]

  2. marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying" [syn: heedless, unheeding] [ant: heedful]

  3. without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: uncaring, unthinking]

  4. (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: careless(p), thoughtless(p), regardless]

Wikipedia
Thoughtless

"Thoughtless" is a song written by American nu metal band Korn for their fifth studio album, Untouchables. "Thoughtless" was released as the album's second single sometime in July 2002. It is about Jonathan Davis' being assaulted and harassed in school and dreaming of seeking revenge on those who bully him.

Thoughtless (Doris Day song)

"Thoughtless" is a 1947 song by Doris Day with The Modernaires written by Carl Lampl and Buddy Kaye. It was released December 29, 1947 and went to #24 in the US charts.

Usage examples of "thoughtless".

A thoughtless person may think that with a whole host of inanimate bodies bestrewing the path of retreat there could not have been much difficulty in supplying the deficiency.

You admit to stupid, you cop to thoughtless, you plead brain-dead, you vouchsafe radical DNA damage all the way back to the Mesolithic, including that embarrassing contretemps involving your ancestor Hoockmuh of the Clactonians which resulted in your being minus a lobe or two of brain, and thus you are truly and genuinely contrite about having cut him off.

Mohaine Desert when he had finally understood that his thoughtless, questionless quest would ultimately succeed?

Uniting in himself the rigid piety of the Puritan with the genial, generous impulses of the cavalier, he won the love of all with whom he came in contact, from the thoughtless child, with whom it was ever his delight to sport, to the great captain of the age, with whom he fought all the hard-won battles of Mexico.

Reeducate those thoughtless, live-for-today hedonistic buccaneering beachmasters too!

It is true, the muses baptized me in Castalian streams, but the thoughtless gipsies forgot to give me a name.

You admit to stupid, you cop to thoughtless, you plead brain-dead, you vouchsafe radical DNA damage all the way back to the Mesolithic, including that embarrassing contretemps involving your ancestor Hoockmuh of the Clactonians which resulted in your being minus a lobe or two of brain, and thus you are truly and genuinely contrite about having cut him off.

Out flashed this blazing truth: kind acts must be instinctive, natural, thoughtless.

It is astonishing with what dexterity Guy Flouncey could extricate himself from the jaws of a friend, who, captivated by his thoughtless candour and ostentatiously good heart, might be induced to request Mr.

I knew that Alix would look on any withdrawal from their society with suspicion, and that Nick would consider me thoughtless if I left Alix on her own for any evening on which he might be late home.

When a group of natives have been robbed of them by thoughtless white men and have found the sacred store-house empty, they have tried to kill the traitor who betrayed the hallowed spot to the strangers, and have remained in camp for a fortnight weeping and wailing for the loss and plastering themselves with pipeclay, which is their token of mourning for the dead.

But the former thoughtless, naive, and simplehearted energy, so familiar to him, had given place in her to sullen irritability, disappointment, cynicism, as it were, to which she was not yet accustomed and which was a burden to her.

Dogs barked, and Thoughtless took a swipe at one scrawny yapper with his spear, nicking the poor creature in its hindquarters.

I would have foolishly married, at Vienna, a young, thoughtless girl, with whom I had fallen in love.

The Joneses had always been as good Moslems as anyone else, but Hamid-Jones had received his share of thoughtless snubs as a child and had never entirely outgrown the old sensitivity.