unreflective

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ reflective.

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Adjective

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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.

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