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UNTHINKINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unthinkingly mean?
• UNTHINKINGLY (adverb)
The adverb UNTHINKINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in a thoughtless manner
Familiarity information: UNTHINKINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a thoughtless manner
Synonyms:
thoughtlessly; unthinking; unthinkingly
Context example:
he stared thoughtlessly at the picture
Pertainym:
unthinking (not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought)
Context examples
I felt an infinite pity for him, and opened my arms unthinkingly.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He looked as handsome and as lively as ever, and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing-looking young woman, who leant on his arm, and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever, by being married already.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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