INCONSIDERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsiderate mean? 

• INCONSIDERATE (adjective)
  The adjective INCONSIDERATE has 2 senses:

1. lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others

2. without proper consideration or reflection

  Familiarity information: INCONSIDERATE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONSIDERATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others

Context example:

shockingly inconsiderate behavior

Similar:

thoughtless; uncaring; unthinking (without care or thought for others)

Also:

selfish (concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others)

tactless; untactful (lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others)

thoughtless (showing lack of careful thought)

Antonym:

considerate (showing concern for the rights and feelings of others)

Derivation:

inconsiderateness (the quality of failing to be considerate of others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without proper consideration or reflection

Synonyms:

inconsiderate; unconsidered

Context example:

prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions

Similar:

thoughtless (showing lack of careful thought)

Derivation:

inconsiderateness (the quality of failing to be considerate of others)

 Context examples 

My dear Copperfield, said Traddles, I have already done so, because I begin to feel that I have not only been inconsiderate, but that I have been positively unjust to Sophy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The young people had been very inconsiderate in forming the plan; they ought to have been capable of a better decision themselves; but they were young; and, excepting Edmund, he believed, of unsteady characters; and with greater surprise, therefore, he must regard her acquiescence in their wrong measures, her countenance of their unsafe amusements, than that such measures and such amusements should have been suggested.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They are all surprised, these inconsiderate young people, fairly and full grown, to see any natural feeling in a little thing like me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He certainly might have heard Mr. Elton speak with more unreserve than she had ever done, and Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money matters; he might naturally be rather attentive than otherwise to them; but then, Mr. Knightley did not make due allowance for the influence of a strong passion at war with all interested motives.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You only said something weak and inconsiderate,” he replied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)