unthinkinglyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋli/, U.S. /ˌənˈθɪŋkɪŋli/ Without thought; unreflectingly.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > lack of reflection > [adverb]
inconsiderablya1646
unreflectingly1665
unthoughtfully1701
thoughtlessly1706
unthinkingly1717
uncannily1825
irreflectively1858
routinely1867
1717 S. Centlivre Cruel Gift iv. ii. 47 Cardono's Love unthinkingly obey'd me.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 69 Yet are we still liable unthinkingly to fall into little artifices for working upon the divine affections.
1829 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. 235 The part which you object to, was not put in unthinkingly.
1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xviii. 222 These phrases are often uttered unthinkingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adv.1717- to make languor
- to make larder of
- to make latin
- to make latins
- to make lavish
- to make leap year of
- to make leg bail
- to make leg-payments
- to make legpayments
- to make let force
- to make life a misery
- to make light of
- to make light work of
- to make like
- to make like a paper doll, and cut out
- to make like a welshman's hose
- to make litter of
- to make little of
- to make little on
- to make little phrase about
- to make little political sense
- to make little way
- to make long sermon
- to make love
- to make love, not war