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inconsiderate

UK/ˌɪnkənˈsɪdəɹɪt/US/ˌɪnkənˈsɪdəɹɪt/
adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,024 of 15,258mostly spoken

Inconsiderate means not thinking about how others are affected. An inconsiderate neighbour, inconsiderate parking, thoughtless and inconsiderate.

It charges failure to think rather than intent to harm, which makes it a mild but genuinely stinging criticism — nobody wants to be told they did not consider. In British traffic law, driving without reasonable consideration for other road users is an offence in its own name. Note considerate, consideration.

Definitions of inconsiderate

  1. 1adjectiveinconsiderateNot thinking about how others are affected.B2

    “It's inconsiderate to play loud music late at night when your neighbours are sleeping.”

    synonyms: thoughtless, selfish

inconsiderate is a quality of thoughtlessness.

Where it comes from

From in- + considerate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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inconsiderate in the wild

  • Individuals with low self-control tend to be impulsive, inconsiderate towards others, risk takers, short-sighted, and nonverbal-oriented.

    Self-control

  • Forms of rudeness include behaving in ways that are inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately offensive, impolite, obscene, or that violate taboos.

    Rudeness

  • A 1966 report in the Australian journal Clinical Pediatrics called into question the sometimes inconsiderate behavior of practitioners who treated patients who were featured cases of grand rounds.

    Grand rounds

  • The act creates a new criminal offence of causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.

    Road Safety Act 2006

  • Outsiders view Carlson as an inconsiderate recluse, but co-workers describe him as a kind and generous person.

    Michael Carlson (chef)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • considerate