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/ənθˈɪŋkɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Unthink v. t. (past & past part. unthought; pres. part. unthinking) To recall or take back, as something thought.

adjective

Unthinking adj.

Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.

Not indicating thought or reflection; thoughtless. "With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case."

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Etymology of 'Unthinking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unthinking" Quotes from Famous Books

... defence of the integrity of the nation, constituted such by organic law, which is supreme forever throughout the length and breadth of the land. Now, while there are in our midst men base enough to endeavor to seduce the unthinking portion of our community to the idea that the traitors are entitled to those rights, and to be treated in that way conceded only by one nation to another, it may be well to consider, in the light of our own history, ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... and a parliament of their own, and so to have no more to do with them. The old egg-woman is no whit easier, and wonders how Mr. Peel, who was always such a well-behaved man here, can be so foolish as to think of letting in the Roman catholics.' The unthinking and the ignorant of all classes were much alike. Arthur Hallam went to see King John in 1827, and he tells his friend how the lines about the Italian priest (Act III. Sc. 1) provoked rounds of clapping, ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

... are on record from the use of orange powders and from others. There are many examples of what an unthinking individual may do ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... our sex be the sport and ridicule of such libertines! Unthinking eye-governed creatures!—Would not a little reflection teach us, that a man of merit must be a man of modesty, because a diffident one? and that such a wretch as this must have taken his degrees ...

— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson

... nature's loveliness, nature's expansive greatness and grandeur teaches of God, and godliness. The inanimate and unthinking are consistently harmonious and beautiful; man only mars the harmony, and makes a hell for man in time. Then, is time his all? or, shall this accursed rabidness be purged away with death, and he become a tone in accord with inanimate things? or, shall ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

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