单词 | thoughtfree |
释义 | thoughtfreeadj. Having or involving no thoughts; free of troublesome thoughts; showing no thought or thoughtfulness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [adjective] unfurnished1549 vacant1579 thoughtless1594 thoughtfree1652 unthinking1688 incogitative1690 incogitant1702 fanciless1753 vacuous1854 1652 J. Shirley Brothers v. 63 in Six New Playes (1653) To clear my self thought-free From any promise. a1677 T. Manton Serm. (1693) IV. ii. 684 In Hell there are no such Diversions, not a Thought free Day nor Night, but Memoria præteritorum, the remembrance of what is past. 1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. p. viii What I might have written had I been a thought-free farmer, with books, country leisure, and liberty to pick, with the perspective bettering of second thought, from the brain's many-mooded vagaries. 1908 Biblical World 31 109 The youth..is more likely to act before he thinks, or even to move along, so far as matters outside his immediate interest are concerned, almost entirely thought-free. 1990 D. Lucie Doing the Business in Fashion, Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business (1991) 275 Those arrogant, thought-free copies of American and Japanese originals. Wearing their lack of imagination like a badge of courage. 1995 Jrnl. Consumer Psychol. 4 182 These theoretical approaches..distinguish two paths to persuasion, one thoughtful and one thoughtfree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1652 |
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