(a.) Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.
(a.) Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of.
(a.) Unknown; undiscovered.
(a.) Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
(n.) A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
(5) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(6) He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.
(7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(8) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(9) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(10) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(11) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(12) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(13) It is resulted from a wrong interpretation of the lung pathology shown in an X-ray picture or its complete ignorance, absence of a regular double reading of fluorographic images, constant shortage of fluorographic films and presence of risk factors.
(14) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(15) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(16) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
(17) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
(18) The correct formulae, which are available from the theory of age-dependent branching processes, are often ignored in the biological literature, perhaps due to their complexity.
(19) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(20) The circumferential stress in the vessel wall was greatly increased by diabetes; great errors will result if the opening angle is ignored.
Thoughtless
Definition:
(adv.) Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.
(adv.) Giddy; gay; dissipated.
(adv.) Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The few who enjoy themselves thoughtlessly, going against the green Glastonbury ethos , spoil it for the many.
(2) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
(3) The poor take up of hearing aids stems partly from the somewhat thoughtless and ill-informed public attitude to hearing impairment and partly from weaknesses in service provision.
(4) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(5) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(6) In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee.
(7) Of course, that does not make it OK. At best these were the thoughtless actions of immature young men.
(8) Bullying does happen, but often it's thoughtless rather than vindictive.
(9) The story in the US is about bad clinics doing awful things, of violence against providers, and of women who are ignorant, thoughtless and irresponsible.” Recruited as part of the first batch of legal abortion counsellors in Texas, Glenna joined Curtis at his first clinic, the Fairmount Center in Dallas, in 1974.
(10) It provides an extraordinary biophysical basis for traditional psychology, including trans-personal experiences down to the ultimate state of thoughtless consciousness.
(11) He was dismissed from his teaching post for thoughtlessly informing his boys that the universe was (contra Genesis) millions of years old.
(12) The anamnesis confirms the frequently thoughtless prescription of phenacetin-containing medicaments and emphasizes their sequelae.
(13) Thoughtlessly, I stood up, as I used to in Lahore when the national anthem was played, only to be greeted with a uniform chant from the row behind: "Sit down, you fascist!"
(14) Gras describes Cameron's proposal as "thoughtless", "probably suggested by [some spin doctor] probably came from some focus group", and that the British prime minister "didn't think through the consequences".
(15) Health experts and women's rights campaigners were also angered, saying he had thoughtlessly resurrected a highly sensitive debate that none of the main parties wants to reopen.
(16) "I am deeply sorry and greatly regret the upset and distress that my juvenile and thoughtless remarks on the Russell Brand show have caused," Ross said.
(17) The family is outraged that rather than comfort a sister coming to the aid of her dying brother, the officers instead manhandled and tackled her, cuffed her and thoughtlessly tossed her in the back of a patrol car.” Another lawyer for the family, Walter Madison, told NOMG: “This has to be the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen.” On 22 November the siblings were playing at a local park, Tamir with his replica handgun.
(18) He tells me to empty my mind of all thoughts, but this is easier said than done, and I start pondering the impossibility of thoughtlessness.
(19) These are not Luddites or fogeys, they are not enemies of business or of the new, but they share simple shock at the thoughtlessness with which change on this scale is happening.
(20) Instead of persisting with thoughtless pay caps and encouraging divisive bidding wars for a share of 1% the government should be engaging in a positive discussion about the setting of public sector pay,” said the FDA’s assistant general secretary, Naomi Cooke.