inconsiderate

Etymology

From in- + considerate.

adj

  1. Not considerate of others.
    Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.
    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. 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, New York: Knopf, Book 1, Chapter 16, pp. 89-90
    “Ann Landers claims drop-in visits are inconsiderate,” he said. 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, New York: Knopf, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 13
  2. (obsolete) Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.
    […] the wise and considerate Men of the World, by a right and careful employment of their Thoughts, and Reason, attained true Notions in this, as well as other things; whilst the lazy and inconsiderate part of Men, making the far greater number, took up their Notions, by chance, from common Tradition, and vulgar Conceptions, without much beating their heads about them. 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 1, Chapter 4, § 15, p. 32
    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; 1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 7, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London: for the author, page 51
    […] the most danger is from those inconsiderate and unexperienced pilots, who think a ship may be managed and conducted with equal ease and safety among shoals, as their own small vessels to which they have been accustomed, 1777, William Hutchinson, A Treatise on Practical Seamanship, Liverpool, page 137
  3. (obsolete) Resulting from insufficient consideration.
    I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: John Wolfe, page 175
    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, 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, London: John Crook, The Authors Preface Introductory
    Do me not the injustice to imagine I now require any particulars to convince me of your innocence, and of my own inconsiderate conclusions. 1791, Charlotte Lennox, Hermione, London: William Lane, Volume 4, Letter 20, p. 65
    Charlotte Stanhope did not in the least conceive that her new friend was a woman whom nothing could entrap into an inconsiderate marriage […] 1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in Barchester Towers, volume 2, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, page 83
  4. (obsolete) Of too little value to be considered.
    […] when they had sold any one of their bullooks to us, for a little inconsiderate peece of brasse, if we did not presently knock him down, they would by the same call, make the poor creature break from us and run unto them again, and then there was no getting them out of their hands, but by giving them more brasse, 1655, Edward Terry, A Voyage to East-India, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, pages 15–16
    […] to wrest the Law to our convenience Is no small, inconsiderate Work? 1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act III, scene 1, page 27

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