Unthink

Quick meaning: Unthink is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive) To undo the process of thinking.

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive) To undo the process of thinking.

Example Sentences

"You must learn to edit your thoughts," she said. "Unthink them..."

In An Experiment with an Air-Pump, characters repeatedly assert that "once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?"

But to do so consistently would require a fairly radical revision of the concept. We should have to unthink as far back as Aristotle […]

They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.

Word Forms

• unthinks
• unthinking
• unthought

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unreflective, thoughtlessly, uncaring, thoughtless, unthoughtful, inconsiderate.

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