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Unthinkingly

Unthinking \Un*think"ing\, a.

  1. Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.

  2. Not indicating thought or reflection; thoughtless.

    With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case.
    --Pope. [1913 Webster] -- Un*think"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*think"ing*ness, n.

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unthinkingly

adv. In an unthinking manner.

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unthinkingly

adv. in a thoughtless manner; "he stared thoughtlessly at the picture" [syn: thoughtlessly, unthinking] [ant: thoughtfully]

Usage examples of "unthinkingly".

Unthinkingly, I did and only later realized Lew and Screwy were by themselves, watching me.

When Tanner had faced the dinichthys, he had hurled himself unthinkingly into the water.

Footjoys and blue sweat socks, drawing the long tapered steel wand of his Lynx Predator driver from the bag, he feels tall again, tall the way he used to on a hardwood basketball floor when after those first minutes his growing momentum and lengthening bounds and leaps reduced the court to childlike dimensions, to the size of a tennis court and then a Ping-Pong table, his legs unthinkingly eating the distances up, back and forth, and the hoop with its dainty skirtlike net dipping down to be there on the layups.

He realized that he had unthinkingly spoken in Master: an addlepated mistake, possibly a fatal one if that happened to be a rebel sentry who was marching around down there.

The tall arachno-dragon nodded, but his hands, huge and skeletal, shifted unthinkingly along the thick duraplast of the rifle slung over one shoulder.

As the internal dramas play out and manifest themselves from an individual, the "who is" (label applied to another) often changes as their human form dependency dictates that it must, and since this process is unthinkingly reflexive, owed to the turbulence within of conflicting dependencies, the decision "who/what is" another, is also an illusion.

She twisted it slowly, easing the dead bolt out of the striker plate without the clack that it made if opened unthinkingly.

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law.

Unthinkingly she leaned back against the front wall, and her chin sank slowly to her chest.

As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.

As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warps, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.

For example, you may avoid shoplifting for the fear of punishment (stage 1), you may watch your little brother carefully to be sure he doesn't get more attention than you (stage 2), you may want to impress your parents or a teacher (stage 3), you may unthinkingly enforce school rules as a monitor (stage 4), and you may be active in the women's movement or help support a child in India through CARE (stage 5 or 6).

I unrolled my sleeping bag, quite unthinkingly, though I noticed the patches of arrow grass, the familiar three-pronged marsh plant, with its burst points.

The kinds of organizations these critics project unthinkingly into the future are precisely those least likely to dominate tomorrow.

It was unhappily really meant, as far as I was conscious, as a 'children's story', and as I had not learned sense then, and my children were not quite old enough to correct me, it has some of the sillinesses of manner caught unthinkingly from the kind of stuff I had had served to me, as Chaucer may catch a minstrel tag.