inconsiderate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not considerate of others.

   • Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.
   • “It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”
   • Bayliss and his father were talking together before dinner when Claude came in and was so inconsiderate as to put up a window, though he knew his brother hated a draft.
2. 2

   Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.

   Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.

   • And all the unsettled humours of the land, Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, […] Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make hazard of new fortunes here:
   • They Pray with Fervour and a fix’d, Attention, never turning like too many Inconsiderate Christians in our Noisy Churches, to behold what People pass behind them;
3. 3

   Resulting from insufficient consideration.

   • I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences:
   • And having given us this inconsiderate Description of Cold, they [the Classick Authors] commonly take leave of the subject, as if it deserved no further handling, then could be afforded it in a few Lines,
   • […] to such a choice are many worthy women betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, raised and propagated, no doubt, by the author of all delusion, That a reformed Rake makes the best husband.
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   1. 4

      Of too little value to be considered.

      • […] to wrest the Law to our convenience Is no small, inconsiderate Work?

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