Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Thoughtless; inconsiderate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not thinking; thoughtless.
- Not capable of thinking: opposed to cogitant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Thoughtless; inconsiderate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
thoughtless ;inconsiderate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs.
P.J. O’Wowser superversive 2009
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You will see how difficult it would be, if it were attempted, to eradicate the indolent, careless, incogitant habits so formed in youth.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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Children the common and necessary Learning, and too frequently entrust their Education with lazy, ignorant, and incogitant Tutors, not to mention the Supineness of Schoolmasters in general throughout
A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696
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