unthought

¹ American  

[uhn-thawt] / ʌnˈθɔt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unthink.

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adjective

1. not thought; think; thought; not framed in a thought think thought or thoughts: thought.

   an unthought advantage.

2. not expected; not anticipated (often followed byof ).

   an unthought-of place to find the key.

unthought ² American  

[uhn-thawt] / ʌnˈθɔt /

noun

1. an absence of thought. think. thought.

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Etymology

Origin of unthought¹

1530–40; unthought ¹ ( defs. 2, 3 ) un- ¹ + thought ²

Origin of unthought²

First recorded in 1865–70; un- ¹ + thought ¹

Example Sentences

So the unthought provoking former big red head obviously struck a nerve with a few.

From Seattle Times

For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself.

From Literature

This attitude that someone who has no real experience in education would come up with an unthought of plan is idiotic.

From New York Times

Such thoughts can be set aside but not unthought.

From Washington Post

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

Related Words

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• random
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