unthink
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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to reverse one's opinion about
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to dispel from the mind
Etymology
Origin of unthink
Example Sentences
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“When I was studying art history, I was told to unthink that notion of the starving artist in the garret,” Gordenker says.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
The problem with thinking a lot about electric cars is that certain things become impossible to unthink: powering a car with fossil fuels, meeting 21st-century challenges with 19th-century answers, become more than irresponsible.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2017
Once the mind thinks some thoughts, it cannot unthink them.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a profession which usually makes popularity unthink able, he achieved another unprecedented triumph last summer when New York fans presented him with an automobile as a token of esteem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well then—if he could think it he could unthink it.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
And that in turn prevents you from aimless or unthinking financial behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
For all its promise, AI risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves and society, destroying the morals and habits that make human flourishing possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
The piece talked down to Roan and diminished her requests as childish and unthinking — ironic for something as petulant as the column reads.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025
Mr Harvey admitted sending them a letter in April 2017 which he now acknowledged was “crass, inappropriate… unthinking and insensitive”.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
He liked that smile, the quick unthinking way it came to her pretty face.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
So the unthought provoking former big red head obviously struck a nerve with a few.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
Much as I appreciate the TSA’s efforts, I worry that its attempt to develop new screening methodologies will bring new irritations, redirecting our time with the agency in as yet unthought ways.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017
But once you put it that way, once you step back and see Burke’s writing as a meta-critical defense of unthought tradition, you start to feel the irony of his situation.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2016
It seemed odd to Aly that even a week ago the idea of protest had been something abstract, even unthought of, and if thought about at all, easily dismissed with cynicism.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2015
For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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