Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inconsideration

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English

Syllables: in-con-sid-er-a-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"new trained Souldiers, and such as are but novices in the trade, doe often headlong, and hand over head cast themselves into dangers, with more inconsideration, than afterward when they have seene and endured the first shocke, and are better trained in the schoole of perils."
"He had no leisure to explain himself further, nor Oriana, prepossessed as she was in favour of Philimore, to weigh the subject with that maturity it demanded:—fatal inconsideration, unbecoming Oriana! Her lover anxiously waiting her reply, she expressed her full consent, when her mother and sister joined her."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconsideration and its source, Latin incōnsiderātiōnem.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: incōnsiderātiōnem

Usage

Inflected Forms

inconsiderations (plural)

Synonyms

inconsiderateness thoughtlessness

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization head station nation location

Questions

What does inconsideration mean?: Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
Where does inconsideration come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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