词汇 | thoughtless |
释义 | thoughtless adjective uk /ˈθɔːt.ləs/ us /ˈθɑːt.ləs/ C2 not considering how your actions or words may upset someone: 欠考虑的;不为他人着想的;粗心的 It was thoughtless not to call and say you'd be late.要迟到都不打个电话,你太欠考虑了。 She's not intentionally unkind - she's just a little thoughtless sometimes.她不是故意不友好——她只是有时有点粗心。 not taking or showing enough care and attention carelessThat was careless of you. sloppySpelling mistakes always look sloppy in a formal letter. slapdashHis work is always hurried and slapdash. rashThat was a rash decision - you didn't think about the costs involved. thoughtlessThe Prime Minister made a thoughtless remark about the environment. Inconsiderate cavalier cavalierly clumsily clumsiness cowboy inconsiderateness indiscreet indiscreetly indiscretion indiscriminate irresponsibly queue-jumper tactless tactlessly tactlessness ungallant ungallantly untactful unthinkingly wanton You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not showing careful thought Related wordsthoughtlessly thoughtlessness thoughtless | American Dictionarythoughtless adjective us/ˈθɔt·ləs/ not showing care for others: I’m sorry I was late – it was thoughtless of me not to call. thoughtlesslyadverbus/ˈθɔt·ləs·li/ He thoughtlessly made an unkind remark about her mother. Examples of thoughtlessthoughtless As if we possessed a carnivore's teeth and digestive tract, thoughtless cliché places us 'at the top of the food chain'. He simply tends in his haste to overvalue his personal interests and to be thoughtless regarding the other's agency interests. The device of the cap was the woman's insurance against a thoughtless, or drunken, husband. Any attempt to use a theory from outside tends to be met with a quick and thoughtless rejection with some counterexamples. With the 'star architect' culture in full sway, a future unfolds of thoughtless, dead 'oceans' dotted occasionally with signature 'islands'. The seventeenth century could see nothing wrong in that; even in the nineteenth century few showed sufficient ecological insight to warn against thoughtless exploitation of nature. There appears to be a growing movement away from the reductionism and the thoughtless fact collecting that have, at times, appeared to be gaining the upper hand. A being who does not display wisdom can be ignorant, foolish, silly, thoughtless, imprudent, irrational, or a bad judge of character, to name just a few possibilities. The truth is revealingly but disappointingly thoughtless. It would have encouraged him to focus on institutions and processes as well as individuals; to see that agency was distributed across many relatively thoughtless acts and casual decisions. It argues that this discourse influenced the fashioning of seventeenth-century commercial policy, which rather than being simply thoughtless and reactive, could be responsive to contemporary debates about trade. Obstructions may be caused by thoughtless, rather than malicious, people parking their vehicles on pavements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would be the last to take a carefree or thoughtless attitude, for instance, to health and safety at work and related matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was there ever so complacent, condescending or thoughtless a set of departmental remarks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I accept that some of them are, but many of them are downright thoughtless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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