Unthinking

Definition: Unthinking

Unthinking

Adjective

1. Not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought.

2. 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'".

3. Mentally sluggish.

Adverb

1. In a thoughtless manner; "he stared thoughtlessly at the picture".

Date "unthinking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references)

Synonyms: Unthinking

Synonyms: lumpen (adj), lumpish (adj), thoughtless (adj), uncaring (adj), unreflective (adj), unthoughtful (adj), thoughtlessly (adv), unthinkingly (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: thoughtfully (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).
Incogitancy	Adjective: vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent; (inattentive); diverted; irrational; narrow-minded.
Necessity	Involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional; (undesigned); impulsive.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unthinking

English words defined with "unthinking": automatic, automatonlike ♦ careless ♦ foolhardy ♦ instinctive ♦ machinelike ♦ natural ♦ rash, reckless, robotlike. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unthinking": Epigram. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines) (reference) Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment: Nature and the State in a Post-Hegelian Era (reference) Unthinking Modernity (reference) Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms (reference) Unthinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and Western Culture (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Unthinking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unthinking" is used about 99 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)	100%	99	32,870

Language		Translations for "unthinking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendjelehtë (airily, facile, featherbrain, featherbrained, featherheaded, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hoity toity, light minded, light-headed, lightsome, unreflecting, vain), i pamenduar (headlong, ill-considered, ill-judged, injudicious, rash, thoughtless, undigested, unreasoned). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير وارد (out of the question, unthinkable), ‏غير عاقل, ‏غافل (asleep, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, incurious, insensible, oblivious, regardless, thriftless, unmindful, unwary). (various references)

Bulgarian		нехаен (careless, cavalier, derelict, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, improvident, inadvertent, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, thoughtless, unmindful), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unwary, wild), лекомислен (airy, airy fairy, dizzy, empty headed, fast, featherbrained, flip, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, harum scarum, idle, inconstant, light, light minded, light-headed, scatter-brained, superficial, trivial, unreflecting), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, untimely, unwary). (various references)

Czech		neuvážený (ill-judged, injudicious, unadvised), nemyslící, bezmyšlenkovitý (thoughtless). (various references)

French		irréfléchi (unguarded). (various references)

German		gedankenlos (absent minded, brainless, carelessly, flighty, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, unreflectingly, unrefracting, unthinkingly). (various references)

Greek		ασυλλόγιστοσ (slap happy), ανυπολόγιστοσ (immeasurable, imponderable, incalculable, inestimable, uncalculated). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מתחשב (inconsiderate, unmindful), � מ�"ר (abrupt, hasty, impetuous, precipitant, rash, sudden, unadvised). (various references)

Hungarian		meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unwary). (various references)

Italian		irriguardoso. (various references)

Pig Latin		inkingunthay

Portuguese		precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unadvised, unwary, unwise), irrefletido (flighty, giddy, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-minded, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting, unwary), irracional (beyond reason, irrational, out of reason, preposterous, surd, unreasonable), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unwary, unwise), estouvado (harum-scarum, heedless, light-headed, madcap, reckless, thoughtless, wrong-headed), distraído (absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, inobservant, light-headed, negligent, unheeding, wandering), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, untidy, unwary). (various references)

Romanian		negândit (premature, rash, wild), nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unreasonable, unwise). (various references)

Russian		бездумный (empty headed, light-headed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unadvised). (various references)

Spanish		irreflexivo (careless, ill-considered, rash, thoughtless, unreflecting). (various references)

Swedish		tanklös (blithe, brash, harebrained, harum scarum, heedless, improvident, inattentive, insensible, light, light-headed, scatter-brained, scatty, thoughtless, unguarded), obetanksam. (various references)

Turkish		düşüncesizce yapılan (impetuous), 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, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, wanton, without tact, witless). (various references)

Ukrainian		немислячий, бездумний (light-headed, thoughtless, unreflecting). (various references)

Vietnamese		không suy xét; không thận trọng, không suy nghĩ kỹ (unreasoning). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inprudens, inprudentem, inprudentes, inprudenti, inprudentis, inprudentium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unthinking": unthinkingly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unthinking" (pronounced unthi"ngking)
6	-th i" ng k i ng	rethinking.
5	-i" ng k i ng	blinking, drinking, linking, plinking, shrinking, sinking, stinking, winking.
4	-ng k i ng	banking, blanking, clanking, cranking, debunking, flanking, flunking, franking, honking, junking, nonbanking, planking, plunking, ranking, reinking, spanking, tanking, thanking, yanking.
3	-k i ng	aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flicking, flocking, forking, forsaking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, plucking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shucking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tasking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-n-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: thinking, thinning, thunking.
	-3 letters: hinting, hunting, kithing, tinning, tunning, uniting, unthink.
	-4 letters: hiking, inking, inning, kiting, knight, nuking, tining, tuning, unknit.
	-5 letters: kinin, night, ninth, thing, think, thunk.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-k-n-n-n-t-u"
	+2 letters: unthinkingly.
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