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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thoughtless \Thought"less\, adv.
     1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a
        thoughtless person, or act.
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     2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] --Johnson.


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     3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
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              Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain.
                                                    --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Thought"less*ly}, adv. --
        {Thought"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thoughtless
       adj 1: showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into
              thoughtless bickering" [ant: {thoughtful}]
       2: marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have
          always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals;
          we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D.
          Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's
          crying" [syn: {heedless}, {unheeding}] [ant: {heedful}]
       3: without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying
          of a great princess on being informed that the people had
          no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: {uncaring}, {unthinking}]
       4: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or
          consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the
          proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow";
          "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: {careless(p)},
           {thoughtless(p)}, {regardless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  217 Moby Thesaurus words for "thoughtless":
     absent-minded, airy, apish, arbitrary, artless, asinine, batty,
     befooled, beguiled, besotted, blank, blankminded, brainless, brash,
     buffoonish, calm, capricious, careless, casual, cockeyed, crazy,
     credulous, cursory, daffy, daft, dazed, degage, discourteous,
     disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, dizzy, doting,
     dumb, easygoing, empty, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous,
     featherbrained, featherheaded, feckless, flaky, flippant, fluttery,
     fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, forgetful, free and easy,
     frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained,
     giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, goofy, grasshopper,
     gulled, half-assed, happy-go-lucky, harebrain, harebrained, hasty,
     heedless, hotheaded, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered,
     ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, imbecile,
     impolite, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, inadept, inadvertent,
     inadvisable, inane, inapt, inattentive, incautious, incogitant,
     inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, inefficient,
     inept, inexpedient, inexpert, infatuated, injudicious, inobservant,
     insane, insensate, insensitive, insouciant, irrational, kooky,
     lazy, loony, mad, madcap, maudlin, mediocre, mindless, misadvised,
     misguided, moronic, myopic, neglectful, negligent, nirvanic, nutty,
     oblivious, offhand, passive, pedestrian, perfunctory, poor,
     quietistic, rash, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated,
     reasonless, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, respectless,
     rude, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, selfish,
     senseless, sentimental, sharp, shatterbrained, shiftless,
     shortsighted, silly, skill-less, stupid, tactless, thoughtfree,
     thriftless, tranquil, unaccommodating, unadvised, unapt,
     uncalculating, uncaring, unceremonious, uncomplaisant,
     unconsidered, uncooperative, undeft, undexterous, undextrous,
     undiplomatic, undiscerning, uneconomical, unfacile, unforeseeing,
     ungracious, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, unideaed,
     unintellectual, unintelligent, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing,
     unnoting, unobliging, unobservant, unobserving, unoccupied,
     unprepared, unproficient, unproviding, unready, unreasonable,
     unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unseeing,
     unsensible, unskillful, unsolicitous, unsound, untactful,
     unthinking, unthoughtful, unthrifty, unwise, vacant, vacuous,
     wacky, wet, witless, wrecking
  
  

















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