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Word Meanings - UNWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.

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  • UNWISE
    Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
  • SILLYHOW
    A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
  • IMPRUDENT
    Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.
  • ABSURDNESS
    Absurdity.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • INDISCREET
    Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more
  • ABSURD
    An absurdity. Pope.
  • SHALLOW-WAISTED
    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
  • SHALLOW
    schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
  • SIMPLE-MINDED
    Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • SIMPLETON
    A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
  • SILLY
    sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
  • ABSURDITY
    1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
  • ABSURDLY
    In an absurd manner.
  • SHALLOW-PATED
    Shallow-brained.
  • SIMPLENESS
    The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.
  • FOOLISHNESS
    1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
  • SIMPLESS
    Simplicity; silliness. Spenser.
  • SHALLOWNESS
    Quality or state of being shallow.
  • UNWISELY
    In an unwise manner; foolishly.
  • SUNWISE
    In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward.
  • SIMPLE
    simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
  • UNSILLY
    See UNSELY

 

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