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单词 unthinking
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Definition of unthinking in English:

unthinking

adjectiveʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋˌənˈθɪŋkɪŋ
  • Expressed, done, or acting without proper consideration of the consequences.

    欠考虑的,考虑不周的;轻率的

    she was at pains to correct unthinking prejudices

    她尽力纠正自己轻率的偏见。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This was his home, and Alexander had been foolish and unthinking to forbid him access to it.
    • Pearls of wisdom leave our mouths every day in an unthinking and mechanical manner.
    • It makes you an unthinking automaton, who will rapidly be shunned by society for your heartless or underwhelming response to everything.
    • They are against unthinking and uncontrolled globalisation.
    • There would have been much to astonish a young Ligurian at that time, many opportunities for outrage, defensive bigotry or unthinking prejudice.
    • I hope this ends any disturbing talk I've seen about the blogosphere about Andy being the unthinking woman's bit of crumpet.
    • None of the foregoing is to suggest that I expect you to behave like an unthinking, insensitive automaton in responding to my request for your help.
    • He adapts with unthinking haste, an instinct that serves him well in front of goal.
    • Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower.
    • ‘We're not all unthinking stereotypes just because we've got older,’ she points out.
    • What they are about is unthinking mass movement versus individual thoughts and actions.
    • Fourthly, there are those who protest out of some kind of violent instinct, who find pleasure in unthinking acts of fury.
    • Communal disharmony, not spiritual harmony, might seem more desirable to secure the unthinking loyalty of the faithful.
    • Even automatic, unthinking actions are to a degree socially-conditioned, as Pavlov and Skinner have demonstrated.
    • Enjoyment became an imperative, expense was no object and she embraced unthinking pleasure with an enthusiasm that bordered on the frenetic.
    • For years, she'd entertained an unthinking prejudice against everyone who used them.
    • When it comes to blind and unthinking prejudice masquerading as nationalism you can always rely on the lunar right to see eye to eye with the loopy left.
    • These unthinking and careless actions by the Premier did no more than to incite and inflame thus creating more danger for those police officers.
    • There are no agencies over here to help unthinking people get their unwisely spent money back.
    • Every Western intervention is automatic and unthinking, it seems, except a human rights intervention.
    Synonyms
    thoughtless, inconsiderate, uncaring, heedless, unmindful, regardless, insensitive, injudicious, blundering, uncharitable, unkind
    tactless, undiplomatic, indiscreet, careless, selfish, impolite, rude
    absent-minded, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, careless, injudicious, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, unwise, foolish, silly, stupid, reckless, rash, precipitate, negligent, neglectful, remiss
    involuntary, inadvertent, unintentional, unintended, mechanical, automatic, reflex, spontaneous, instinctive, impulsive, intuitive, unpremeditated, unconscious

Derivatives

  • unthinkingly

  • adverbʌnˈθɪŋkɪŋli
    • You're so happy with the friendly and attentive service you've received that you unthinkingly tip 20%, or more, and search for the eye of your waiter and exchange with them a hearty goodbye.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But this might cause the millions of British people who unthinkingly place substantial amounts into their pension schemes every month a shock when the day of expected leisure finally arrives.
      • Controlled and coerced by authority and media, the individual either accepts the message blindly and unthinkingly, or reacts creatively and critically because he understands dominance.
      • A particularly good chapter on Asia rebukes anyone who unthinkingly assigns to China the role once played by the Soviet Union as the natural antagonist of the U.S.
      • We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
  • unthinkingness

  • noun
    • Please put it down to momentary unthinkingness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But there is an art to this, and it is the antithesis of the unthinkingness that propagates the clichés in the first place.
      • In this unthinkingness, in this damned egoistic impressionism, lurks a sinister bureaucracy of thought suppressing all healthy, deviant impulses - namely, congruency between image and sound.
      • Why, 40,000 years ago, did we suddenly emerge from literally millions of years of primordial unthinkingness, to become the geniuses who are ‘ruling the planet’ today?
      • A certain amount of instability, of recklessness, of unthinkingness may be pardonable in youth, but the years should have brought their wisdom.

Rhymes

freethinking, shrinking, sinking, unblinking, unwinking

Definition of unthinking in US English:

unthinking

adjectiveˌənˈTHiNGkiNGˌənˈθɪŋkɪŋ
  • Expressed, done, or acting without proper consideration of the consequences.

    欠考虑的,考虑不周的;轻率的

    she was at pains to correct unthinking prejudices

    她尽力纠正自己轻率的偏见。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Whether you agree with him or not, his motives for acting are clearly not unthinking loyalty to the US or sycophancy to a superpower.
    • It makes you an unthinking automaton, who will rapidly be shunned by society for your heartless or underwhelming response to everything.
    • There are no agencies over here to help unthinking people get their unwisely spent money back.
    • None of the foregoing is to suggest that I expect you to behave like an unthinking, insensitive automaton in responding to my request for your help.
    • He adapts with unthinking haste, an instinct that serves him well in front of goal.
    • This was his home, and Alexander had been foolish and unthinking to forbid him access to it.
    • What they are about is unthinking mass movement versus individual thoughts and actions.
    • Even automatic, unthinking actions are to a degree socially-conditioned, as Pavlov and Skinner have demonstrated.
    • When it comes to blind and unthinking prejudice masquerading as nationalism you can always rely on the lunar right to see eye to eye with the loopy left.
    • I hope this ends any disturbing talk I've seen about the blogosphere about Andy being the unthinking woman's bit of crumpet.
    • Communal disharmony, not spiritual harmony, might seem more desirable to secure the unthinking loyalty of the faithful.
    • ‘We're not all unthinking stereotypes just because we've got older,’ she points out.
    • These unthinking and careless actions by the Premier did no more than to incite and inflame thus creating more danger for those police officers.
    • For years, she'd entertained an unthinking prejudice against everyone who used them.
    • They are against unthinking and uncontrolled globalisation.
    • Enjoyment became an imperative, expense was no object and she embraced unthinking pleasure with an enthusiasm that bordered on the frenetic.
    • Pearls of wisdom leave our mouths every day in an unthinking and mechanical manner.
    • There would have been much to astonish a young Ligurian at that time, many opportunities for outrage, defensive bigotry or unthinking prejudice.
    • Every Western intervention is automatic and unthinking, it seems, except a human rights intervention.
    • Fourthly, there are those who protest out of some kind of violent instinct, who find pleasure in unthinking acts of fury.
    Synonyms
    thoughtless, inconsiderate, uncaring, heedless, unmindful, regardless, insensitive, injudicious, blundering, uncharitable, unkind
    absent-minded, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, careless, injudicious, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, unwise, foolish, silly, stupid, reckless, rash, precipitate, negligent, neglectful, remiss
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