unthinking
pronunciation
How to pronounce unthinking in British English:
UK [ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋ]
How to pronounce unthinking in American English:
US [ˌʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
- without care or thought for others
- mentally sluggish
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- Adverb:
- in a thoughtless manner
Word Origin
- unthinking (adj.)
- 1670s, "unreflecting;" 1680s, "heedless," from un- (1) "not" + present participle of think (v.).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Financiers are unthinking brutes , whose obsession with numbers is a form of autism .
- 2. After an unthinking moment , she put the pen into her mouth .
- 3. If the republican party has moved to the unthinking right , the democratic party has moved to the unreforming left .
- 4. And underneath it all was a breezy , unthinking optimism , that prices could only ever go up .
- 5. He doesn 't say those silly things that unthinking people say .