unreflective
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of unreflective
First recorded in 1850–55; un- 1 + reflective
Example Sentences
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He stressed the number of protesters was small and unreflective of the mood of most of the crowd.
From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2022
Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes and market values, and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed market-driven society.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021
“It’s just that I’m so unreflective about my own process and unself-conscious about it. These are natural questions, but I don’t think about that. I just … it’s like … I don’t know.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
Evil rejects reason and contemplation, and it is fundamentally unreflective.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
Doubtless reality is, in some degree, what it is in unreflective moments; but it is frequently something more, as man learns to his sorrow.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas
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