Synonyms for thoughtless
ˈθɔt lɪsthought·less

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1. thoughtless

   As regards mental action, absorbed, abstracted, and preoccupied refer to the cause, absent or absent-minded to the effect. The man absorbed in one thing will appear absent in others. A preoccupied person may seem listless and thoughtless, but the really listless and thoughtless have not mental energy to be preoccupied. The absent-minded man is oblivious of ordinary matters, because his thoughts are elsewhere. One who is preoccupied is intensely busy in thought; one may be absent-minded either through intense concentration or simply through inattention, with fitful and aimless wandering of thought. Compare ABSTRACT.

   Synonyms:
   absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, listless, negligent, oblivious, preoccupied

   Antonyms:
   alert, attentive, on hand, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake

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1. thoughtlessadjective

   showing lack of careful thought

   "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"

   Synonyms:
   uncaring, unthinking

   Antonyms:
   bemused, lost(p), pondering, considerate, cogitative, brooding, deliberative, meditative, deep in thought(p), well thought out(p), reflective, broody, musing, pensive, contemplative, preoccupied, ruminative, excogitative, thoughtful

2. thoughtless, uncaring, unthinkingadjective

   without care or thought for others

   "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"

   Synonyms:
   unthinking, lumpen, unaffectionate, detached, lumpish, uncaring, unthoughtful, unreflective

   Antonyms:
   deliberative, broody, ruminative, pondering, considerate, musing, well thought out(p), lost(p), meditative, pensive, thoughtful, reflective, cogitative, bemused, preoccupied, contemplative, excogitative, brooding, deep in thought(p)

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1. inconsiderate

   careless, thoughtless, heedless; displaying lack of consideration.

   it's inconsiderate of her to go away without telling us.

   Submitted by JP03 on June 30, 2015  

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1. thoughtlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   heedless, regardless, careless, listless, neglectful, negligent, inattentive, inconsiderate, unmindful, unwatchful, inadvertent, giddy, flighty, reckless, headlong, hare-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed

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1. thoughtlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash, inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning

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1. List of paraphrases for "thoughtless":

   ill-considered, pretentious, unconscious, unthinking, hare-brained, reckless, mindless, dizzy, dazed, indiscriminate

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1. Chief Superintendent Ian Wylie:

   We are still in the midst of a pandemic. It is the thoughtless attitude of people that will make this disease spike again.

2. The Hitopadesa:

   To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.

3. Blaise Pascal:

   We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

4. Jessica Anderson:

   It is too narrowly focused and it's thoughtless if you think that the mom who is filling up her gas tank isn't the same mom who is caring about her kids' school and making sure that CRT( critical race theory) isn't part of her kids' curriculum. That mom is faced with both sets of issues, cultural and economic, and so elected officials need to meet voters where they're at.

5. William Wordsworth:

   For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.