nonthinking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonthinking
Adjective
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The point is made: Pinocchio might have a hole where his heart should be, but is the unthinking servile person any less hollow?
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Jim Edwards InvestingMarkets Back in the ’90s a Fed chief warned about ‘irrational exuberance’ in the markets.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The man seemed to think he was surrounded by incompetent, unintelligent, wastes of space.
    Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The 32-year-old says she’s always been naturally curious, but as a child, school often left her feeling anxious and unintelligent.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • The influencer, who was in her 20s and had garnered over 300,000 followers on TikTok, allegedly wanted to cut ties with Choi due to his coercive instructions and unreasonable scheduling, according to the reports.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As Philadelphia gears up for hopefully a return to the playoffs in 2025-26 (although title expectations would be probably an unreasonable expectation now), the team is not being particularly precious with its previous rotational thoughts.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Nonthinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonthinking. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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