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Definition of Thoughtless

1. Adjective. Showing lack of careful thought. "The debate turned into thoughtless bickering"

2. Adjective. 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'"

Definition of Thoughtless

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

Definition of Thoughtless

1. Adjective. Marked by or showing lack of due thought or care; careless. ¹

2. Adjective. Inconsiderate, inattentive. ¹

3. Adjective. Lacking thought or consideration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thoughtless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoughtless

thought shower thought showers thought through thought transference thought withdrawal thoughtcrime thoughtcrimes thoughted thoughten thoughtest

thoughtform thoughtforms thoughtful thoughtfully thoughtfulness thoughtless thoughtless(p) thoughtlessly thoughtlessness thoughtlet

thoughtlets thoughtlike thoughtographic thoughtography thoughts thoughtscape thoughtscapes thoughtsick thoughtway thoughtways

Literary usage of Thoughtless

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

1. The Profession of Teaching by Oscar Isreal Woodley, Myra Virginia Woodley (1917)
"Thoughtless cruelty on the part of the teacher. Another ignorant and thoughtless teacher once made the school life of one of her pupils wretched by ..."

2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"But thoughtless follies laid him low, . A Bard's Epit.. I, for their thoughtless, careless salces Despondency, an Ode. J. The followers o' the ragged Nine, ..."

3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... away the little social gaucheries of men,—to prevent those violations of good taste which are so common among sensible but ill-bred or thoughtless men, ..."

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