unreflective
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Etymology
un- + reflective
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- Rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Adjective
unreflective (not comparable)
- 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?
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