unreflecting
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unreflectingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of unreflecting
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
![]()
There was here the danger of being drugged by the miasma that rose from this unreflecting surface.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
It is a plain tale about a middle-aged man of the official class, happy in an unreflecting sort of way in the jog-trot of his work and domestic arrangements.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.