inconsiderate
/ˌɪnkənˈsɪdəɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not considerate of others.
adj
Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate."
- "“It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”"
- "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."
- "“Ann Landers claims drop-in visits are inconsiderate,” he said."
- "And all the unsettled humours of the land, Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, […] Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make hazard of new fortunes here:"
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English considerate English inconsiderate From in- + considerate.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more inconsiderate (comparative)
most inconsiderate (superlative)