Word.ws English Dictionary

unreflective

unreflective adjective: not reflective; thoughtless.

Adjective

unreflective (not comparable)

  1. Not reflective; thoughtless
    • 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?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)
    • But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years.2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times

Origin of unreflective

From un- + reflective.

Words formed from unreflective

Words that rhyme with unreflective

28 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unreflective

What does unreflective mean?
Unreflective means not reflective; thoughtless.
What part of speech is unreflective?
Unreflective is an adjective.

Words near unreflective in the dictionary

  1. unrefitted
  2. unreflected
  3. unreflecting
  4. unreflectingly
  5. unreflectingness
  6. unreflective
  7. unreflectively
  8. unreflectiveness
  9. unreflectivity
  10. unreflexive
  11. unreflexively

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unreflective (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unreflective.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unreflective. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.