Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Thoughtless; inconsiderate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not thinking; thoughtless.
  • Not capable of thinking: opposed to cogitant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Thoughtless; inconsiderate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective thoughtless; inconsiderate

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin incōgitāns, incōgitant- : in-, not; see in– + cōgitāns, present participle of cōgitāre, to think; see cogitate.]

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Latin incogitans; pref. in- not + cogitans, present participle of cogitare to think. See cogitate.

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Examples

  • The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing is a product of the pointy-headed wowsers at the Association of American University Presses who established a Task Force on Bias-Free Language filled with cranks, pokenoses, blowhards, four-flushers, and pettifogs.

    P.J. O’Wowser superversive 2009

  • You will see how difficult it would be, if it were attempted, to eradicate the indolent, careless, incogitant habits so formed in youth.

    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

  • Children the common and necessary Learning, and too frequently entrust their Education with lazy, ignorant, and incogitant Tutors, not to mention the Supineness of Schoolmasters in general throughout

    A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696

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