Word Meanings - THOUGHTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,

Additional info about word: THOUGHTLESS

1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly, adv. -- Thought"less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THOUGHTLESS)

• Absent
• Not present
• gone away
• elsewhere
• inattentive
• thoughtless
• listless
• preoccupied
• Flippant
• Pert
• forward
• superficial
• saucy
• malapert
• Giddy
• Whirling
• vertiginous
• inconstant
• unsteady
• lofty
• beetling
• dizzy
• hare-brained
• flighty
• Light
• Imponderous
• portable
• unweighty
• buoyant
• volatile
• easy
• digestible
• scanty
• active
• unencumbered
• empty
• slight
• gentle
• capricious
• vain
• frivolous
• characterless
• unthoughtful
• unconsidered
• inadequate
• incompact
• unsubstantial
• inconsiderable
• not difficult
• bright
• whitish
• trifling
• Rash
• Headstrong
• audacious
• hasty
• precipitate
• reckless
• foolhardy
• careless
• adventurous
• indiscreet
• venturesome
• overventuresome
• incautious
• unwary
• heedless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of THOUGHTLESS)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to THOUGHTLESS)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• UNWARY
  1. Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless. 2. Unexpected; unforeseen; unware. Spenser.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called