unthought

¹

[uhn-thawt]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unthink.

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

[uhn-thawt]

noun

1. an absence of thought. think. thought.

Word History and Origins

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

Macron, who previously criticised Nato as being “brain-dead”, said: “Europe has a lot of thoughts unthought. On a geostrategic level we had forgotten to think because we thought our geopolitical relations through Nato.”

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

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

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A person with special needs bagging groceries or working at a fast-food joint, unthought of before Special Olympics started, has now become commonplace.

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

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Related Words

• accidental 
• inadvertent 
• involuntary 
• random 
• unexpected 
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• unintended 
• unplanned