inconsiderate

Adjective

inconsiderate (comparative more inconsiderate, superlative most inconsiderate)

1. Not considerate of others.
   • Not replacing the roll after using the last of the toilet paper is very inconsiderate.
   • “It’s very inconsiderate of you, St. Clare,” said the lady, “to insist on my talking and looking at things. You know I’ve been lying all day with the sick-headache; and there’s been such a tumult made ever since you came, I’m half dead.”1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Of Tom’s New Master, And Various Other Matters”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett &...

   Synonyms:

   thoughtless, unthoughtful, unthinking

   Antonyms:

   considerate, thoughtful

2. (obsolete) Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.
   • And all the unsettled humours of the land,
     Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, […]
     Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,
     Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
     To make hazard of new fortunes here:c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • […] the wise and considerate Men of the World, by a right and careful employment of their Thoughts, and Reason, attained true Notions in this, as well as other things; whilst the lazy and inconsiderate part of Men, making the far greater number, took up their Notions, by chance, from common...1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 1, Chapter 4, § 15, p. 32

   Synonyms:

   hasty, inattentive, rash, unreflecting

3. (obsolete) Resulting from insufficient consideration.
   • I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences:1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: John Wolfe, page 175
   • And having given us this inconsiderate Description of Cold, they [the Classick Authors] commonly take leave of the subject, as if it deserved no further handling, then could be afforded it in a few Lines,1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, London: John Crook, The Authors Preface Introductory

   Synonyms:

   unconsidered

4. (obsolete) Of too little value to be considered.
   • […] when they had sold any one of their bullooks to us, for a little inconsiderate peece of brasse, if we did not presently knock him down, they would by the same call, make the poor creature break from us and run unto them again, and then there was no getting them out of their hands, but by giving...1655, Edward Terry, A Voyage to East-India, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, pages 15–16
   • […] to wrest the Law to our convenience
     Is no small, inconsiderate Work?1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act III, scene 1, page 27

   Synonyms:

   inconsiderable, negligible, trifling