Meanings
- not comparableNot reflective; thoughtless
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 Times1 more example
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)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishreflective
- Englishunreflective
From un- + reflective.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish ajattelematon, harkitsematon
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German unreflektiv
- unreflektivTranslations
Polish bezrefleksyjny
- bezrefleksyjnyTranslations
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unreflective
Cite this entry
unreflective. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreflective
“unreflective.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreflective. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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