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Synonyms

unreflecting

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

adjective

  1. not reflecting; unthinking.

    an unreflecting, self-satisfied man.


Other Word Forms

  • unreflectingly adverb

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

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