English

Adjective

unreflective ‎(not comparable)

1. Not reflective; thoughtless
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The beginnings

     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”, in We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.:

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

Derived terms

• unreflectively
• unreflectiveness

Related terms

• nonreflective