UNTHINKING Synonyms: 160 Similar and Opposite Words

unthinking

adjective

as in ignorant

done or said in a foolish way without thinking about the possible effects unthinking remarks His unthinking agreement made me uneasy.

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Recent Examples of unthinking For tens of millions of Americans, COVID-19 disrupted an important and largely unthinking habit: going to their place of work. —

Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022 But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader. —

Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2022 There follows a curt, violent Scherzo—an apotheosis of unthinking force. —

Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022 In my youth, and perhaps yours, Wilson was presented in history books as a tragic hero whom the unthinking American people didn’t deserve. —

Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for unthinking

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Adjective

But even for someone like myself, totally ignorant to the lore and not really seeking to change that, the Star Wars universe can look genuinely interesting, and some games every now and then manage to tap into that potential.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 30 Apr. 2026
Jahmil Eady – Freaky As gentrifiers take over her neighborhood, a Gullah Geechee woman, Annabelle (Melanie Nicholls-King) calls on ancestral knowledge, which has dire consequences for the newcomers who have begun to take over the land, ignorant of its history.

— Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026