Inconsiderate

Definitions: Inconsiderate

Inconsiderate

Adjective

1. Lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior".

2. Without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions".

Date "inconsiderate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Inconsiderate \In`con*sid"er*ate\, adjective. [Latin expression inconsideratus. See In- not, and Considerate.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Inconsiderate

Synonym: unconsidered (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: considerate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Inconsiderate, thoughtless.
Incogitancy	Adjective: vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent; (inattentive); diverted; irrational; narrow-minded.
Neglect	Inconsiderate; uncircumspect, incircumspect; off one's guard; unwary, unwatchful, unguarded; offhand.
Unskillfulness	Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inconsiderate

English words defined with "inconsiderate": Incogitant, inconsiderately, inhospitality ♦ offhanded, offhandedly ♦ self-assertion ♦ To give one's self away, To go heels over head ♦ Unconsiderate, unconsidered, Unweighing ♦ Whim shaft, without consideration. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inconsiderate": ADDLE PATE ♦ BIRD-WITTED ♦ Controversy ♦ INFERIAE ♦ renown. (references)

Etymologies containing "inconsiderate": Unconsiderate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Inconsiderate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (thoughtlessly, without consideration).

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I'm an inconsiderate prick! (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

I honestly believe that anyone even considering bringing a child in to the world is cold, inconsiderate and an act of cruelty. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Some of them tend to be very hysterical - so inconsiderate. (Kind Hearts and Coronets; writing credit: Roy Horniman; Robert Hamer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Inconsiderate Death [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Inconsiderate Waiter [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Every man, even the best, has some inconsiderate severity which he holds in reserve for animals.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear. Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! W.J. Candleton
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Inconsiderate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inconsiderate" is used about 43 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%	43	52,181

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.

Language		Translations for "inconsiderate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pavëmendshëm (absentminded, careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, oblivious, regardless, unattending), i pakujdesur (stepmotherly). (various references)

Arabic		‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏مستهتر (careless, gay, heedless, irresponsible, licentious, light minded, loiterer, pleasure-seeking, reckless, thoughtless, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton), ‏لا يراعي الآخرين, ‏غير مروي فيه (unadvised), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, 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, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise). (various references)

Bulgarian		невнимателен (careless, distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unheeding, unkind), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), неделикатен (indelicate). (various references)

Chinese		不替别人着想. (various references)

Czech		nerozvážný (adventurous, imprudent, injudicious, thoughtless), nepozorný (heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, thoughtless), nešetrný (brusque, unceremonious, uneconomical), bezohledný (callous, cutthroat, heartless, reckless, ruthless, thoughtless, unceremonious, unscrupulous). (various references)

Farsi		سهل انگار (Lax, Nonchalant), بی فکر (Giddy, Insensate, Thoughtless), بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous), بی ملاحظه (Incautious, Indiscreet, Reckless, Thoughtless, Unconsidered). (various references)

Finnish		varomaton (heedless, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, thoughtless), tahditon (indiscreet, tactless), harkitsematon (heedless, rash, unconsidered), häikäilemätön (arrogant, unscrupulous), ajattelematon (hasty, heedless, indiscreet, light-headed, thoughtless). (various references)

French		inconsidéré, impétueux, qui manque d'égard, peu attentif, maladroit (inexpert), étourdi (inadvertent). (various references)

German		rücksichtslos (heedless, heedlessly, inconsiderately, irrespective, irrespectively, reckless, regardlessly, ruthless, thoughtless, unkind). (various references)

Greek		απερίσκεπτοσ (careless, devil may care, rash, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unreflecting). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מתחשב (unmindful, unthinking). (various references)

Hungarian		tapintatlan (brash, gauche, indelicate, indiscreet, indiscrete, pushing, tactless, undiplomatic). (various references)

Indonesian		tidak memperhatikan. (various references)

Italian		sconsiderato (hasty, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, light minded, madcap, rash, thoughtless, unmindful, unthought), avventato (careless, foolhardy, harum scarum, madcap, rash, reckless, unadvised). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		心無い (cruel, tasteless, thoughtless), 心ない (cruel, tasteless, thoughtless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"�"ろない (cruel, tasteless, thoughtless). (various references)

Korean		사� �가 없�". (various references)

Manx		neusmooinaghtagh (unimaginable), neufrioosagh (unheedful), gyn thort (headlong, headstrong, impulsive, inconsideration, maladroit, snap, unconsidered). (various references)

Norwegian		ubetenksom (imprudent, indiscreet), hensynsløs. (various references)

Pig Latin		inconsiderateay

Portuguese		irrefletido (flighty, giddy, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, light minded, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), inconsiderado (incendiarism, indiscretion, thoughtless), sem valor (bum, chaffy, hollow, naughtiness, nugatory, paltry, peddling, picayune, trashy, trifling, useless, vain, valueless, waste, worthless), não ponderado (ill-defined). (various references)

Romanian		nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), neînţelept (imprudent). (various references)

Russian		необдуманный (ill-considered, slapdash, thoughtless, unweighed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unadvised, unthinking), lakomislen (devil may care, featherbrain, featherbrained, flippant, frivolous, improvident, light minded, light-headed, thoughtless). (various references)

Spanish		inconsiderado (hasty, ill-advised, reckless, thoughtless), sin consideración, desconsiderado (irrespective, thoughtless, unmindful, unthoughtful). (various references)

Swedish		obetänksam (ill-considered, indiscreet, insensible, rash, unadvised), hänsynslös (desperate, hard bitten, reckless, unscrupulous, wanton). (various references)

Turkish		ihtiyatsız (heedless, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, unguarded, unwary), tedbirsiz (ill-advised, ill-judged, improvident, imprudent, incautious, injudicious, unadvised, unwary), saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant, unmannerly), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), anlayışsız (blind, blunt, dim, insensitive, purblind, undiscerning, unsympathetic). (various references)

Ukranian		неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreasonable, unwise), неделікатний (indelicate, unscrupulous). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiếu suy nghĩ (ill-considered, incautious, light-headed, light-minded, rash), thiếu quan tâm thiếu thận trọng, thiếu chu đáo (inattentive), thiếu ân cần, khinh suất (hare-brained, harum-scarum, hasty, imprudent, incautious, precipitate, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inconsultus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inconsiderate": inconsiderately, inconsiderateness, inconsideratenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inconsiderate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incosiderate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: containerised.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: containerise.
	-2 letters: ancientries, considerate, constrained, contredanse, creatinines, desecration, incinerated, incinerates.
	-3 letters: ancestored, carnitines, condensate, containers, contenders, coresident, creatinine, crenations, deaconries, directions, discretion, endocrines, incinerate, indicators, indiscreet, inordinate, internodes, interocean, iridescent, nectarines, ordinances, reanointed, redactions, reeditions, renditions, sanctioned, transience.
	-4 letters: acridines, actinides, actinoids, adenosine, ancienter, andesitic, anecdotes, anointers, anoretics, antinodes, antinoise, ardencies, ascendent, canneries, cannister, canonised, canonries, carnitine, carotenes, catenoids, centiares, centroids, cisternae, coarsened, condenser, consented, consenter, constrain, contained, container, contender, creatines, creations, crenation, cretonnes, dacoities, decanters, decorates, desertion, detainers, diaeretic, dicentras, dietaries, direction, disorient, doctrines, edacities, endocrine, entrained, entranced, entrances, erections, esoterica, ideations, inactions, incenters, incidents, incondite, increased, indenters, indentors, indicants, indicates, indicator, indictees, indicters, indictors, insertion, insincere, instanced, intenders, internode, iodinates, iterances, narceines, nectaries, nectarine, neoterics, nicotines, noncredit, nondesert, onanistic, ordinance, ordinates, ordnances, raticides, reactions, reanoints, recension, recondite, redaction, reedition, reincited, reincites, reindicts, renascent, rendition, resection, resinated, resonance, resonated, retinoids, secretion, sectioned, sonicated, stridence, tanneries, tenancies, tendances, tensioned, tensioner, transcend, transonic.
	-5 letters: acetones, aconites, acridest, acridine, actinide, actinoid, actinons, adenines, adenitis, ancestor, ancients, andesite, andirons, anecdote, aneroids, anointed, anointer, anoretic, anserine, antinode, aoristic, arenites, arointed, arsenide, arsenite, ascender, asteroid, astonied, canister, canities, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist, canteens, cantered, cantoned, carditis, carotene, carotids, carotins, cartoned, catenoid, censored, centares, centiare, centners, centones, centroid, ceratins, ceratoid, cineaste, cinerins, cisterna, citrines, codeinas, codeines, cointers, condense, conidian, coniines, consider, contains, contends, cordites, corniest, corseted, coteries, crannied, crannies, creatine, creatins, creation, crenated, cretonne, crinites, crinoids, ctenidia, daintier, dainties, decanter, decennia, deciares, decision, decorate, dentines, derision, desertic, desinent, detainer, detrains, diatonic, diatrons, dicentra, dictions, dieretic, diocesan, dioecies, diorites, discreet, discrete, disinter, distance, distrain, doctrine, earstone, editions, einstein, enactors, enations, encoders, endnotes, endocast, endosarc, endostea, enneadic, ensnared, enterons, enticers, entrains, entrance, erection, escorted, esoteric, ideation, idocrase, inaction, incanted, incensed, incenter, incident, inciters, increase, increate, indecent, indenter, indentor, indicans, indicant, indicate, indictee, indicter, indictor, indirect, inditers, indorsee, inertiae, inertias, insectan, inserted, insnared, instance, intender, intenser, interned, internes, intoners, intrados, iodinate, ironside, iterance, narceine, narceins, nearside, necrosed, neonates, neotenic, neoteric, nerdiest, nescient, niceties, nicotine, nicotins, nineties, niteries, nitrides, nonacids, nonrated, notaries, notecase, noticers, oneriest, onscreen, ordinate, ordnance, oriented, oscinine, rainiest, raisonne, randiest, raticide, rationed, reaction, readiest, reanoint, reascend, reascent, reasoned, recanted, recision, recoined, redcoats, reenacts, reincite, reindict, resident, resinate, resinoid, resonant, resonate, retained, retinoid, sanction, sarcenet, sardonic, scandent, scantier, scenario, sciaenid, seconder, secretin, sectored, sedation, sedition, seicento, senorita, seriated, serotine, siderite, sintered, sirenian, sonantic, sonatine, sonicate, sonneted, soricine, steadier, stearine, strained, tacnodes, tacrines, tendance, tenoners, ternions, tornadic, trainees, trendies, triacids, triadics, triennia.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: inconsiderately, reconsideration.
	+3 letters: codeterminations, reconsiderations.
	+4 letters: decentralizations, denuclearizations, inconsiderateness.
	+5 letters: counteradvertising.
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