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inconsideration

inconsideration noun: lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.

Noun

inconsideration (countable and uncountable, plural inconsiderations)

  1. Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
    • new trained Souldiers, and such as are but novices in the trade, doe often headlong, and hand over head cast themselves into dangers, with more inconsideration, than afterward when they have seene and endured the first shocke, and are better trained in the schoole of perils., II.11
    • He had no leisure to explain himself further, nor Oriana, prepossessed as she was in favour of Philimore, to weigh the subject with that maturity it demanded:—fatal inconsideration, unbecoming Oriana! Her lover anxiously waiting her reply, she expressed her full consent, when her mother and sister...1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158

inconsideration meaning in Kannada

inconsideration in Kannada

ಅವಿಚಾರ, ಅವಿಚಾರಣೆ

Forms of inconsideration

pluralinconsiderations

Origin of inconsideration

Borrowed from Middle French inconsideration and its source, Latin incōnsiderātiōnem.

Words that rhyme with inconsideration

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Questions about inconsideration

What does inconsideration mean?
Inconsideration means lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences, thoughtlessness.
What is inconsideration in Kannada?
Inconsideration in Kannada is ಅವಿಚಾರ, ಅವಿಚಾರಣೆ. See Inconsideration meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is inconsideration?
Inconsideration is a noun.
What is the plural of inconsideration?
The plural of inconsideration is inconsiderations.

Words near inconsideration in the dictionary

  1. inconsiderably
  2. inconsideracy
  3. inconsiderate
  4. inconsiderately
  5. inconsiderateness
  6. inconsideration
  7. inconsiderations
  8. inconsistence
  9. inconsistences
  10. inconsistencies
  11. inconsistency

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inconsideration (page history and authors); inconsideration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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