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Definition: Thoughtless |
ThoughtlessAdjective1. Showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering". 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". 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'". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thoughtless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: ThoughtlessSynonyms: careless(p) (adj), heedless (adj), regardless (adj), thoughtless(p) (adj), uncaring (adj), unheeding (adj), unthinking (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: heedful (adj), thoughtful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Adjective: unendowed with reason, void of reason; thoughtless; vegetative; moronic, idiotic, brainless. |
Inattention | Inconsiderate, thoughtless. |
Incogitancy | Adjective: vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent; (inattentive); diverted; irrational; narrow-minded. |
Neglect | Adjective: neglecting; Verb: unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless, careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss; feebleness. |
Nonpreparation | Shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded; happy-go-lucky; caught napping; (inexpectant); unpremeditated. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thoughtless |
| English words defined with "thoughtless": Airling ♦ Giddy-headed, Gill-flirt ♦ Imperseverant ♦ joker ♦ offhanded ♦ Scatter-brain, Scatter-brained ♦ thoughtlessly, turkey ♦ uncaring, unkind, unmindfully, unthinking, unthinkingly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thoughtless": BEHAVIOR, BIRD-WITTED ♦ CHOICE SPIRIT ♦ Frozen Words ♦ Golf ♦ JINGLE BRAINS ♦ Obligation ♦ Paint and Painting, POLYGAMY ♦ Secret Order ♦ Winged Rooks. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thoughtless": Airling. (references) |
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Screenplays | Sometimes I can be a little thoughtless. (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
Lyrics | And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thoughtless Women (1920) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | No letter : it isn't always the girl who is thoughtless. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Desiderius Erasmus | The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. |
Hannah More | Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. |
William Wordsworth | For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | That young man (speaking lower) is very thoughtless. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She was rather thoughtless than forgetful |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does |
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Health | A malicious or thoughtless child may tell all the neighborhood children that his former companion is a "freak" because he has an extra chromosome. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the Dies Irae: Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die. Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior. |
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| "Thoughtless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Thoughtless" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.08% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.92% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "thoughtless": thoughtless into. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thoughtless | 54 |
korn lyrics thoughtless | 26 |
korn thoughtless | 12 |
lyrics thoughtless | 9 |
korn tab thoughtless | 3 |
korn thoughtless mp3 | 2 |
korn thoughtless video | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "thoughtless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i pamenduar (headlong, ill-considered, ill-judged, injudicious, rash, undigested, unreasoned, unthinking). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستهتر (careless, gay, heedless, inconsiderate, irresponsible, licentious, light minded, loiterer, pleasure-seeking, reckless, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton), غير مراع لحقوق الآخرين, عديم التفكير, طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, unadvised, unwise), ارعن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, injudicious, insensate, irrational, reasonless, senseless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), нехаен (careless, cavalier, derelict, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, improvident, inadvertent, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, unmindful, unthinking), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, unheeding, untidy), егоистичен (egoistic, piggish, selfish). (various references) | |
Chinese | 茍 (Bufo vulgaris, if indeed, toad), 苟 (if indeed), 混 (confused, dirty, mix, to get along, to mix), 不注意 (not pay attention to). (various references) | |
Czech | netaktní (indelicate, indiscreet, insensitive, meddlesome, tactless), nerozvážný (adventurous, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious), nepozorný (heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate), bezohledný (callous, cutthroat, heartless, inconsiderate, reckless, ruthless, unceremonious, unscrupulous), bezmyšlenkovitý (unthinking), bezhlavý (hasty, headless). (various references) | |
Farsi | ناشی ازبی فکری , لاقید (Glib, Indfferent, Jaunty, Slipshod, Unconcerned), بی فکر (Giddy, Inconsiderate, Insensate), بی ملاحظه (Incautious, Inconsiderate, Indiscreet, Reckless, Unconsidered). (various references) | |
Finnish | varomaton (heedless, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet), ajattelematon (hasty, heedless, inconsiderate, indiscreet, light-headed). (various references) | |
French | malavisé, irréfléchi, inconsidéré, étourdi. (various references) | |
German | gedankenlos (absent minded, brainless, carelessly, flighty, thoughtlessly, unreflectingly, unrefracting, unthinking, unthinkingly). (various references) | |
Greek | επιπόλαιοσ (cursory, flighty, flippant, frivolous, perfunctory, sciolistic, shallow, skin deep, superficial), απρόσεκτοσ (careless, dabbler, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slap dash, unguarded, unmindful, unwary), απερίσκεπτοσ (careless, devil may care, inconsiderate, rash, unadvised, unconsidered, unreflecting), απερίσκεπτος (airy, foolhardy, impetuous, indiscreet, rash, reckless), αλογάριαστοσ (incalculable, lavish, not settled). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חסר מחשב". (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeleburdi (featherbrain, flibbertigibbet, flighty, giddy, harum-scarum, rattlebrained, to lack ballast), meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), következetlen (inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent), figyelmetlen (distrait, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, mindless, negligent, perceptive, reckless, regardless, unmindful, unobservant, unperceptive). (various references) | |
Italian | spensierato (airy, carefree, happy go lucky, light hearted, unworried), sconsiderato (hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, inconsiderate, light minded, madcap, rash, unmindful, unthought), leggero (agile, faint, fickle, flippant, light, mild, nimble, shallow, slight, soft, thin, weak), irriflessivo, irresponsabile (harum scarum, irresponsible, unaccountable, unanswerable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無謀 (reckless, recklessness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そそっかしい (careless), そ"つ (at fault, careless, rash, rude), ふけ"しき (absurd, betraying one's lack of judgment, compromising, disgraceful, indiscreet, lacking in common sense, rashness, undignified), かるがるしい (careless, frivolous, indiscreet), ""ろない (cruel, inconsiderate, tasteless), あさはか (frivolous), めった (careless, reckless, seldom), むぼう (bare-headed, reckless, recklessness, uncovered head), むか"がえ (heedless, rash), やすい (cheap, easy, gossipy, inexpensive, peaceful, quiet), けいそう (a conflict, a dispute, aspect, contention, controversy, diatom, dispute, features, flighty, form, instrumentation, lightweight equipment or dress, look, phase, relay race), けいそつ (careless, excellent soldier, hasty, rash). (various references) | |
Manx | antortagh (inattentive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oughtlessthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | irrefletido (flighty, giddy, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-minded, reckless, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), inconsiderado (incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), imprevidente (casual, improvident, inadvertent, unwary), estouvado (harum-scarum, heedless, light-headed, madcap, reckless, unthinking, wrong-headed), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary). (various references) | |
Romanian | zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), zãnatic (cracked, daft, scatterbrained), uşuratic (airily, airy, careless, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, glib, light minded, light-mindedly, trifling, volatile), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), pripit (beforehand, foolish, hasty, hurried, impetuous, previous, quick, rash, rashly), nesocotit (harum scarum, hasty, ignored, indiscreet, injudicious, scorned, unwise, venturesome, witless), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, unmoved), necugetat (foolish, ill-advised, ill-advisedly, inadvertent, mad, precipitate, rashly, reckless, thoughtlessly), nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, unadvised, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), neatent (absent minded, abstracted, abstractedly, careless, heedlessly, inadvertent, inadvertently, inattentive, inattentively, listless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctorily, regardless, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, unmindful), fluşturatic (fickle, flighty, flippant, volatile), fãrã idei, fãrã griji (carefree, easy, free from care, freeminded, light-heartedly, neglectful), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded). (various references) | |
Russian | неосмотрительный (ill-judged, imprudent, unchary), необдуманный (ill-considered, inconsiderate, slapdash, unweighed), беспечный (carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, happy-go-lucky, jaunty, light-hearted, reckless, rocked in security, unconcerned, unguarded, unthinking). (various references) | |
Scottish | gòrach (foolish, silly, unwise). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, unadvised, unthinking), nepažljiv (abstracted, feckless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, negligent, unheeding, unmindful), neljubazan (disagreeable, disobliging, unaffable, unfriendly, unkind, unobliging), lakomislen (devil may care, featherbrain, featherbrained, flippant, frivolous, improvident, inconsiderate, light minded, light-headed). (various references) | |
Spanish | irreflexivo (careless, ill-considered, rash, unreflecting, unthinking), inconsiderado (hasty, ill-advised, inconsiderate, reckless), inconsciente (insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, senseless, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unwitting), descuidado (abandoned, careless, disregarded, heedless, incautious, incautiousness, lackadaisical, neglected, neglectful, negligent, overgrown, remiss, slovenly, unattending, uncared for), desconsiderado (inconsiderate, irrespective, unmindful, unthoughtful). (various references) | |
Swedish | tanklös (blithe, brash, harebrained, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatter-brained, scatty, unguarded, unthinking), korttänkt (short-witted). (various references) | |
Turkish | tasasız (carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, insouciant, light, light hearted, without a care in the world), patavatsız (blunt, gauche, harum scarum, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, indiscreet, out of turn, plainspoken, plump, politically incorrect, tactless, unadvised, without tact), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | який не дума", бездумний (light-headed, unreflecting, unthinking), дурний (anserine, asinine, balmy, bat-minded, bovine, cloddish, cracked, daft, dense, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, gawky, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, oafish, obtuse, opaque, owlish, pigheaded, sappy, sottish, spoony, stockish, stupid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô tư lự nhẹ dạ, khinh suất (hare-brained, harum-scarum, hasty, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreflecting), không thận trọng (imprudent, unwary), không suy nghĩ (unadvised, undeliberated, unreflecting), không quan tâm (indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested, unthoughtful), không lo lắng (reckless, unconcerned, unpreoccupied), không chín chắn, không cẩn thận không ân cần. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | improvidus, incogitatus, inconsideratus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thoughtless": thoughtlessly, thoughtlessness, thoughtlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thoughtless" (pronounced thô"tlus) |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, countless, cutlass, doubtless, ductless, effortless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, limitless, listless, meatless, pilotless, pointless, relentless, restless, rootless, shiftless, spotless, stateless, tasteless, ticketless, warrantless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-l-o-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: shuttles, thoughts, toughest. | |
-4 letters: ghettos, gustoes, gutless, guttles, hostels, housels, hustles, lotuses, lushest, outlets, outsets, setouts, sheughs, shtetls, shuttle, sleuths, sloughs, solutes, thought, tousles, tugless. | |
-5 letters: ghetto, ghosts, ghouls, glosts, glouts, guests, gushes, gusset, guttle, helots, heughs, hosels, hostel, hotels, housel, houses, hugest, hushes, hustle, lottes, loughs, louses, lushes, oughts, ousels, outlet, outset. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-h-l-o-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: thoughtlessly. | |
+3 letters: thoughtfulness. | |
+4 letters: thoughtlessness. | |
+5 letters: thoughtfulnesses. | |
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