From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inconsiderate \In'con*sid"er*ate\, adjective [L. inconsideratus. See {In-} not, and {Considerate}.]
1. 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.
It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. --Addison.
2. Inconsiderable. [Obs.] --E. Terry.
Syn: Thoughtless; inattentive; inadvertent; heedless; negligent; improvident; careless; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; injudicious; rash; hasty.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior" [ant: {considerate}]
2: without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions" [syn: {unconsidered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconsiderate": airy, arbitrary, boorish, brash, caddish, capricious, careless, casual, coarse, crude, cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy, hasty, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, ill-bred, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvertent, inadvisable, incautious, indifferent, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, intolerant, irrational, lazy, loutish, louty, madcap, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nasty, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory, rash, reasonless, reckless, regardless, respectless, rude, senseless, sharp, shortsighted, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating, unadvised, uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant, unconcerned, unconsidered, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscerning, unfeminine, unforeseeing, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unladylike, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready, unreasonable, unreasoning, unrefined, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, unsympathetic, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, vulgar, witless
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