Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unthinking
IPA transcription: [ənθ'ɪŋkɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unreflective, unthinking, unthoughtful
    Meaning: not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thoughtlessly, unthinkingly, unthinking
    Meaning: in a thoughtless manner; "he stared thoughtlessly at the picture"
Usage examples
  • Like a child, unthinking, she obeyed and drank.
  • That political freedom may compromise in its excesses the tranquillity, the property, the lives of individuals, is obvious to the narrowest and most unthinking minds.
  • The buffalo is an exception; he regularly hunts a man, and is therefore peculiarly dangerous. Unthinking persons talk of the fearful rapidity of a lion or tiger's spring.
  • The artlessness of rural habits enabled him readily to make her acquaintance; he gradually won his way into her intimacy, and paid his court to her in that unthinking way in which young officers are too apt to trifle with rustic simplicity.