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thoughtless, a.|ˈθɔːtlɪs|
[f. thought1 + -less.]
That is without thought, in various senses: the opposite of thoughtful.
1. Not taking thought, acting without thought or reflection; unreflecting, heedless, imprudent.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iv. i. 40 Nor thinke I thoughtles thinke vpon a meane, To let his death be vnreueng'd at full. 1611Florio, Inpensierato, thoughtlesse, carelesse. a1704T. Brown Sat. agst. Woman 39 Weak curses..For thoughtless crimes, which come out of thy kind. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. Wks. 1874 I. 42 Youth may be alleged as an excuse for rashness and folly, as being naturally thoughtless. 1849B. Taylor in Life & Lett. I. vii. 149, I shall neither be rash nor thoughtless.
b. With of or dependent clause: Not thinking; unmindful, forgetful; heedless, careless; unsuspecting. Now rare.
1615Chapman Odyss. v. 19 He..Finds you so thoughtlesse of him, and his birth. 16..Rogers (J.), Without remorse for the past, and thoughtless of the future. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 668 A Snake..Leaving his Nest..thoughtless of his Eggs. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 716 The Royal guest, Thoughtless of ill, accepts the fraudful feast. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 365 Men homage pay to men, Thoughtless beneath whose dreadful eye they bow.
†c. Free from care or anxiety. Also transf. Obs.
1742Gray Eton Coll. v, The thoughtless day, the easy night. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 255 So blest a life these thoughtless realms display. 1789Blake Songs Innoc., Night 17 They look in every thoughtless nest.
d. Wanting in consideration for others; inconsiderate.
1794Blake Songs Exper., Fly 3 Little fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Mod. It was very thoughtless of you to disturb her.
2. Deficient in or lacking thought; not given to thinking; stupid, senseless, dull-witted; destitute of ideas. Now rare.
1682Dryden Mac Flecknoe 26 Shadwell never deviates into sense.., his goodly fabric..seems designed for thoughtless majesty. 1714Pope Epil. Jane Shore 7 As a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull, And thanks his stars he was not born a fool. 1879B. Taylor Stud. Germ. Lit. 194 He was an earnest thinker in a thoughtless time.
†b. Of inanimate things: Devoid of thought.
1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 22 Bodies have no Thought, therefore they produce none:..for how can a thoughtless Principle produce a Thought? c1705Berkeley Commonpl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 469 Extension to exist in a thoughtless thing (or rather in a thing void of perception..), is a contradiction. |