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[ adjective ] showing lack of careful thought
Examples "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Mrs._Pastern undertook the work of going from house to house with the thoughtless resignation of an honest and traditional laborer . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed , brushed , and taking_breaths of air , and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy , a grace of history , so_to_speak , and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value . Related terms thoughtful unreflective inconsiderate inconsiderate thoughtfulness |
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[ adjective ] marked by or paying little heed or attention
Examples "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" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without care or thought for others
Synonyms Examples "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread `Let them eat cake'" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration
Synonyms Examples "careless of the consequences" "the proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow" "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" Related terms |
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