unreflective
adjEtymology From un- + reflective.
1
Not reflective; thoughtless
- 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?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):
- But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years.2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- unreflectively, unreflectiveness
- Related terms
- nonreflective