What's the difference between inconsiderate and thoughtless?

Inconsiderate


Definition:

  • (a.) Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct.
  • (a.) Inconsiderable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
  • (3) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
  • (4) Augmentin is slightly more active than amoxicillin on some Acinetobacter strains but the difference is too inconsiderable to be of clinical significance.
  • (5) We conclude that small differences in long-term blood glucose control are of inconsiderable importance for the islet hormonal response to arginine found in IDDM without B-cell function.
  • (6) It is established that during hibernation a level of labelled aminoacids incorporation into proteins of all organs under study (ventricle, auricle, liver, spleen, diencephalon, adrenal gland, brown fatty tissue) is inconsiderable.
  • (7) Watch for when he is late, or disrespectful, or inconsiderate.
  • (8) It’s not an inconsiderable contribution in terms of cost to government, given we are taking in people in the first generation who are going to have big difficulties, and maybe second generation as well.” If there is a difficulty with the Scanlon report Australia Today, it is the sheer volume of information which portrays the complexity of Australia’s culture.
  • (9) Preincubation of nervous tissue with pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (40 microM) results in significant acceleration of catabolism of [1-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate, [5-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate and [4-14C] aspartate with an inconsiderable increase of catabolism of the rest of labelled substrates.
  • (10) A few months after I'd bought the land, for the not inconsiderable sum of £6,000, I decided to visit it.
  • (11) Special attention is given to twins with congenital cheiloschisis, gnathoschisis, and palatoschisis, and it is possible to show that the role played by hereditary factors in the etiology of such maldevelopments is not inconsiderable.
  • (12) They point above all to the risks of inconsiderate management and indicate the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities which are available only in a special clinic.
  • (13) In contrast, the traditional Christian-dominated Bible stories approach did at least have the not inconsiderable benefit of introducing children to the foundational texts of the western canon.
  • (14) The chemical composition of the tissue has been shown to be changed by these enzymes inconsiderably.
  • (15) In an era of belt-tightening at the BBC , his salary will be a not-inconsiderable £450,000.
  • (16) In the fortnight since his nomination, Wolfowitz has worked strenuously to try to temper his reputation as a raging neo-conservative, deploying his not inconsiderable charm to persuade critics in Europe and the Middle East that he does indeed have experience in finance and development, and that he will be able to divorce Washington's interests from the bank's.
  • (17) Parenteral administration may take the form of: 20-100 mg oestradiol "pills" implanted subcutaneously, percutaneous administration of 0.05-0.1 mg oestradiol-containing capsules stuck to the skin every 24 hours, 3 mg daily or every second day in a water-alcohol gel, vaginally in cream, suppositories of impregnated vaginal synthetic material (Silastic) rings in daily doses of 0.5-0.25 mg. Percutaneous administration in gel from and partially with vaginal administration in cream or suppositories result in not inconsiderable diurnal variation and inter-individual variation in the plasma oestradiol concentrations obtained.
  • (18) While these obstacles are not inconsiderable, the possibility for effective consultation still exists.
  • (19) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
  • (20) Internistic diseases account for 12.8%, and disorders from the fields of paediatrics, ENT medicine and dermatology (3.5% urticaria) also make a non-inconsiderable contribution.

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.