Unwise

Definition: Unwise

Unwise

Adjective

1. Showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished".

2. Not appropriate to the purpose.

Date "unwise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Unwise

Synonym: inexpedient (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imbecility Folly	Blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical; apish; simious.
	Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unwise

English words defined with "unwise": ill-advised, injudicious ♦ lead on ♦ pound-foolish ♦ Simple obligation ♦ Unwisdom ♦ Weak. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unwise": Athelstane ♦ Catholic King, cationic cocktail, contra-indication, contraindications ♦ Engagement, Epaulet ♦ Fagot, Firmament ♦ Gypsy ♦ Harlequin, Hedges ♦ Lumber ♦ Mantilla, Marsh, Mushroom ♦ Naked ♦ Omnibus ♦ Rain ♦ Stockings. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A man who refuses to acknowledge his god is unwise to set foot in the desert (The Garden of Allah; writing credit: Robert Hichens; W.P. Lipscomb)
Lyrics	Was I unwise to leave them open for so long (DOCTOR MY EYES; performing artist: Jackson Browne)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Grasshopper and the Unwise Owl (reference) Oland The Unwise Owl (reference) Unwise & otherwise : essays (reference) Unwise child (reference) Unwise Promises (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Phaedrus	That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Or, if you choose to go farther, it will not be unwise, for I have found the increase of fair bait to be very nearly as the squares of the distances
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A registered dietitian or qualified nutritionist can help you plan a meal pattern that is right for you. Most women with gestational diabetes need three meals and a bedtime snack each day. It is unwise for anyone who is pregnant to go long periods of time (greater than 5 hours) without eating, as this will produce ketones. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combination and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	To have gone, on the other hand, a single step further for the purpose of wounding the pride of a Government and people with whom we had so many motives for cultivating relations of amity and reciprocal advantage would have been unwise and improper.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Farmers, in particular, have suffered from past unwise government policies.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	We must not go back to unwise spending or untargeted tax cuts that risk reopening the deficit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unwise" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.15% of the time. "Unwise" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	88.15%	238	19,410
Adverb (general)	11.85%	32	61,292
Total	100.00%	270	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unwise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paurtë, i pamatur (imprudent, inadvisable, indiscreet, rash, reckless, spanless, unguarded, unmeasured, unsounded, unwary). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير حكيم (impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inexperienced, injudicious, unadvised, weak), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian		глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, injudicious, insensate, irrational, reasonless, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting), неблагоразумен (ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, injudicious, unadvised). (various references)

Chinese		不智 , 不明智 (imprudent, injudicious). (various references)

Czech		nerozumný (foolish, impractical, reasonless, unreasonable, unsound), nemoudrý (injudicious). (various references)

Farsi		نادان (Asinine, Fool, Ignorant, Inept, Silly, Simple, Unlettered, Untaught, Yokel), غیرعاقلانه (Injudicious), جاهل (Ignoramus, Uninformed, Unknowable, Unknowing). (various references)

Finnish		ymmärtämätön (foolish, indiscreet, injudicious), tyhmä (addled, dense, dull, foolish, silly, stupid, thick-headed), epäviisas (ill-advised, imprudent, inadvisable). (various references)

French		malavisé (unadvised), imprudent (unadvised, unguarded, unwarily, unwary). (various references)

German		unklug (foolish, ill-advised, impolitic, imprudent, imprudently, inexpedient, injudicious, misguided, unintelligent, unsound, unwisely). (various references)

Greek		ασύνετοσ (ill-advised, impolitic, imprudent, inalienability, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, witless), αφρών. (various references)

Hebrew		לא � בון (injudicious), טפש (fool, goof, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, silly, simpleton, stupid). (various references)

Hungarian		oktalan (causeless, impolitic, imprudent, irrational, preposterous). (various references)

Indonesian		tidak bijaksana (ill-advised, indiscreet), tak bijaksana. (various references)

Italian		malaccorto (ill-advised, imprudent, misguided, rash), imprudente (impolitic, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, rash, unwary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不味い (awkward, bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, unskilful, untimely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まずい (awkward, bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, unskilful, untimely). (various references)

Pig Latin		iseunway.(various references)

Portuguese		precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary), pouco discreto, insensato (brainless, daffy, dippy, foolish, hard-hearted, insensate), ininteligente (unintelligent), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary). (various references)

Romanian		nesocotit (harum scarum, hasty, ignored, indiscreet, injudicious, scorned, thoughtless, venturesome, witless), nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unreasonable, unthinking), imprudent (ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, rash, unadvised). (various references)

Russian		глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, silly, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, wooden-headed), неразумно неблагоразумный, неблагоразумный (ill-advised, imprudent, indiscreet, inexpedient, unreasonable). (various references)

Scottish		gòrach (foolish, silly, thoughtless), faoin (foolish, silly, vain, void), baoth (foolish, stupid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemudar. (various references)

Spanish		imprudente (careless, foolish, ill-judged, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, unwary). (various references)

Swedish		oklok (ill-advised, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inexpedient, unadvised). (various references)

Turkish		makul olmayan (implausible, unreasonable), akılsızca olan, akılsız (buggy, bughouse, emptyheaded, fatuous, feather brain, feather-brained, fool, foolish, goofy, gormless, ill-advised, inexpedient, irrational, mindless, preposterous, unintelligent, unreasoning, vacant, witless). (various references)

Ukrainian		нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreasonable). (various references)

Vietnamese		khờ, không khôn ngoan (ill-judged, impolitic, inadvisable, unpolitic), dại dột không thận trọng. (various references)

Welsh		annoeth (imprudent), angall (foolish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 19, Verse 36
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Anantirrhtwn oun ontwn toutwn deon estin umaV katestalmenouV uparcein kai mhden propeteV prattein
Latin	405	Vulgate	Cum ergo his contradici non possit oportet vos sedatos esse et nihil temere agere
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfor whanne it may not be ayenseid to these thingis, it behoueth you to be ceessid, and to do no thing folili;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Seinge then yt no man sayth here agaynst ye ought to be content and to do nothinge rasshly:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Seeing then that these things cannot be contradicted, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So then, because these things may not be doubted, it would be better for you to be quiet, and do nothing unwise.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 19, Verse 36
Albanian	Duke qenë, pra, se këto janë të pakundërshtueshme, ju duhet të rrini urtë dhe të mos bëni asgjë të nxituar.
Cebuano	Ug kay dili man malalis kining mga butanga, kinahanglan nga magpakahilum kamo ug dili magpatakag buhat ug bisan unsa.
Chinese	這事既是駁不 �' 的、 � 們就當安靜、不可 � 次。
Croatian	Buduæi dakle da je to neporecivo, valja da budete mirni te ništa brzopleto ne èinite.
Danish	Når altså dette er uimodsigeligt, bør I være rolige og ikke foretage eder noget fremfusende.
Dutch	Dewijl dan deze dingen onwedersprekelijk zijn, zo is het behoorlijk dat gij stil zijt, en niets onbedachts doet.
Finnish	Koska ei kukaan voi tätä kieltää, tulee teidän siis pysyä rauhallisina eikä tehdä mitään harkitsematonta.
French	Cela étant incontestable, vous devez vous calmer, et ne rien faire avec précipitation.
German	Weil das nun unwidersprechlich ist, so sollt ihr ja stille sein und nichts Unbedächtiges handeln.
Haitian Creole	Pesonn pa ka di se pa vre. Se sa ki fè, se pou n' mete tèt nou an plas pou n' pa fè anyen san nou pa kalkile byen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tidak seorang pun dapat membantah hal itu. Karena itu tenanglah dan jangan melakukan sesuatu dengan gegabah.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka sedang segala perkara itu tiada dapat dibantahi, patutlah kamu diam dan jangan berbuat barang sesuatu dengan gopoh-gopoh.
Italian	Poiché questi fatti sono incontestabili, è necessario che stiate calmi e non compiate gesti inconsulti.
Latvian	Tâ kâ tam neviens nevar pretim runât, jums jânomierinâs, lai neko neapdomîgu nedarîtu.
Maori	Na, ka kore nei enei mea e taea te whakakorekore, heoi kia ata noho, kaua hoki e hikaka te mahi.
Norwegian	Da nu ingen motsier dette, må I holde eder rolige og ikke foreta eder noget forhastet.
Portuguese	Ora, visto que estas coisas não podem ser contestadas, convém que vos aquieteis e nada façais precipitadamente.
Rumanian	Fiindcq nimeni nu poate sq tqgqduiascq lucrul acesta, trebuie sq vq potoliyi, wi sq nu faceyi nimic cu pornire nechibzuitq.
Russian	еУМЙ ЦЕ Ч ЬФПН ОЕФ У� ПТБ, ФП ОБ�"П�'ОП ЧБН �'ЩФШ У� ПЛПКОЩНЙ Й ОЕ � ПУФХ� БФШ П� ТПНЕФЮЙЧП.
Shuar	Warí, Núnaka Ashí aents nékainia asamtai atumsha itiatkatarum. Túrarum Enentáimtsuk yajauch Túrawairap, Tímiayi.
Spanish	Ya que esto no puede ser contradicho, conviene que os apacigüéis y que no hagáis nada precipitado.
Swahili	Hakuna anayeweza kukana mambo haya. Hivyo basi, tulieni; msifanye chochote bila hadhari.
Swedish	Eftersom ju ingen kan bestrida detta, bören I hålla eder lugna och icke företaga eder något förhastat.
Uma	Uma hema to mposapu toe. Toe pai' mengkalino-ta ulu, neo' -ta nakeni roe nono-ta.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unwise": unwisely, unwiser, unwisest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "unwise": sunwise. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unwise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enwies, nwise, onwis, Ulwazi, unice, unis, unwash, unwite, Uwusa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unwise" (pronounced unwī"z)
3	-w ī" z	whys, wise.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-s-u-w"
	-1 letter: sinew, swine, unsew, wines.
	-2 letters: news, sewn, sine, wens, wine, wins, wise.
	-3 letters: ens, ins, new, nus, sei, sen, sew, sin, sue, sun, uns, use, wen, win, wis.
	-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, nu, si, un, us, we.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-s-u-w"
	+1 letter: sunwise, unwiser.
	+2 letters: lauwines, unsewing, untwines, unwisely, unwisest, unwished, unwishes.
	+3 letters: untwisted, unwariest, unweights, unwinders.
	+4 letters: underwings, underwires, unscrewing, unswearing, unswerving, unwariness, unworthies, upsweeping, upswelling, upwellings, windsurfed, wulfenites.
	+5 letters: causewaying, lawrenciums, outswearing, underwrites, unwieldiest, unwitnessed, unworthiest, warehousing, wienerwurst, willfulness, wishfulness, wistfulness, wunderkinds.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
unwise	17
unwise virus	2
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Unwise

Definition: Unwise

Unwise

Adjective

Synonym: Unwise

Synonyms within Context: Unwise

Imbecility Folly

Crosswords: Unwise

Modern Usage: Unwise

Screenplays

Lyrics

Commercial Usage: Unwise

Books

Familiar Quotations: Unwise

Phaedrus

Historic Usage: Unwise

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Unwise

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Unwise

Health

Speeches: Unwise

George Washington

Andrew Jackson

Ronald Reagan

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Unwise

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unwise

unwise

unwise virus

Modern Translation: Unwise

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Bible Trace: Unwise

Matched Bible Translations: Unwise

Derivations & Misspellings: Unwise

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Unwise"

Anagrams: Unwise

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