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unreflecting

American  
[uhn-ri-flek-ting] / ˌʌn rɪˈflɛk tɪŋ /

adjective

  1. not reflecting; unthinking.

    an unreflecting, self-satisfied man.


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Etymology

Origin of unreflecting

First recorded in 1655–65; un- 1 + reflect + -ing 2

Example Sentences

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Your eyes … are cool-coloured, sort of air force blue-grey, and strangely unreflecting.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2015

Very few people take up one or the other of these extremes, although the latter comes closer to a common, natural, and unreflecting point of view.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

I have seen her, sometimes, when she thinks I’m not looking: her face goes still, remote, unreflecting.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In spite of the strongly-marked trait of spiritualisation and abstraction which runs through the Gathas, there is no lack in them of unreflecting and naïve conceptions, which have come down to us from ancient days.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Take the feast of fruits, symbolic of the poet’s early unreflecting joys, and the new thirst for some finer and more inspiring elixir which follows it:—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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