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unbedacht

German, adjective[ˈʊnbəˌdaxt]

unbedacht is spelled U-N-B-E-D-A-C-H-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 59,520th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unbedacht is a German adjective meaning “ill-considered, careless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne vorheriges Nachdenken, nicht überdacht”.

What does unbedacht mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    ill-considered, careless

  2. 2

    without a roof

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. ohne vorheriges Nachdenken, nicht überdacht

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of unbedacht

  • unbedachter masculine nominative singular
  • am unbedachtesten superlative
  • unbedachte feminine nominative singular
  • unbedachtes neuter nominative singular
  • unbedachten genitive masculine singular
  • unbedachtem dative masculine singular
  • der unbedachte definite includes-article masculine
  • die unbedachte definite feminine includes-article
  • das unbedachte definite includes-article neuter
  • die unbedachten definite includes-article nominative
  • des unbedachten definite genitive includes-article
  • der unbedachten definite feminine genitive
  • dem unbedachten dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce unbedacht?

  • [ˈʊnbəˌdaxt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to unbedacht

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is unbedacht in German?

unbedacht appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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