inconsiderate
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Not giving enough consideration to one's actions, conclusions, etc.; acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences.Examples: "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:"; "[…] 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 Tradition, and vulgar Conceptions, without much beating their heads about them."; "They Pray with Fervour and a fix’d, Attention, never turning like too many Inconsiderate Christians in our Noisy Churches, to behold what People pass behind them;"Synonyms: hasty, inattentive, rash, unreflectingobsolete
2. (obsolete) Resulting from insufficient consideration.Examples: "I am ouer-ready to pardon young ouersights, and forgiue inconsiderate offences:"; "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,"; "[…] to such a choice are many worthy women betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, raised and propagated, no doubt, by the author of all delusion, That a reformed Rake makes the best husband."Synonyms: unconsideredobsolete
3. (obsolete) Of too little value to be considered.Examples: "[…] 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 them more brasse,"; "[…] to wrest the Law to our convenience Is no small, inconsiderate Work?"Synonyms: inconsiderable, negligible, triflingobsolete
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