unreflective

English

Etymology

un- +‎ reflective

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛktɪv

Adjective

unreflective (not comparable)

1. Not reflective; thoughtless
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVII, The beginnings”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     Is it not enough, at any rate, to strike the thing called ‘Fame’ into total silence for a wise man? For fools and unreflective persons, she is and will be very noisy, this ‘Fame’, and talks of her ‘immortals’ and so forth: but if you will consider it, what is she?

   • 2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years.

Derived terms

• unreflectively
• unreflectiveness

Related terms

• nonreflective

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: ajattelematon (fi), harkitsematon (fi)
• German: unreflektiv
• Polish: bezrefleksyjny (pl)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can