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unreflective

[ uhn-ri-flek-tiv ]

/ ˌʌn rɪˈflɛk tɪv /

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adjective

not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.

Origin of unreflective

First recorded in 1850–55; un-¹ + reflective

OTHER WORDS FROM unreflective

un·re·flec·tive·ly, adverb

Words nearby unreflective

unreel, unreeve, unrefined, unreflected, unreflecting, unreflective, unregenerate, unregistered, unregulated, unrehearsed, unrelated

Example sentences from the Web for unreflective

But a future of unreflective rightist and hyper-anti-culture religionists is a poisonous recipe.

Voting For Yair Lapid, Israel’s Maimonides |Rabbi Daniel Landes |February 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But Jackson was an experienced hand at public affairs, and his populism, while genuinely felt, was not unthinking or unreflective.

Resolved: Sarah Palin Is Not Andrew Jackson |Jon Meacham |October 15, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
Note that it is "unreflective," not "unconscious," nor yet merely "instinctive" conduct.

Creative Intelligence |John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
They are the spontaneous expression of careless, wanton, unreflective youth.

Wine, Women, and Song |Various

Without stress and strain, without struggle, it just displaces the object which unreflective impulse had suggested.

Ethics |John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts
Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources |James Wood
Logical conduct is, then, conduct which aims to remove ambiguity and inhibition in unreflective conduct.

Creative Intelligence |John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

British Dictionary definitions for unreflective

unreflective

/ (ˌʌnrɪˈflɛktɪv) /

adjective

not reflective or thoughtful; rash; unthinking

Derived forms of unreflective

unreflectively, adverb