Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not reflective; wanting the quality or the habit of reflection; thoughtless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not reflective.

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  • adjective Without mental reflection.

Etymologies

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ir- +‎ reflective

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Examples

  • Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • To the vapid and irreflective observer he was not much to look at in the early stages of his career, having a dough-like face almost entirely devoid of nose, a lack-lustre eye, and the general appearance of a poached egg.

    The Coming of Bill 1928

  • The gentle and intelligent reader will remember (though that miserable worm, the vapid and irreflective reader, will have forgotten) that at the beginning of the term the fags of Kay's had endeavoured to show their approval of Fenn and their disapproval of Kennedy by applying to the former for leave when they wished to go to the town; and that Fenn had received them in the most ungrateful manner with blows instead of exeats.

    The Head of Kay's 1928

  • To the casual and irreflective observer, if you know what I mean, it may sound a pretty good wheeze having a duke for an uncle, but the trouble about old Chiswick was that, though an extremely wealthy old buster, owning half London and about five counties up north, he was notoriously the most prudent spender in England.

    My Man Jeeves 1928

  • The vapid and irreflective reader may jump to the conclusion that

    The Gem Collector 1928

  • Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters, nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.

    Chapter IV 1917

  • Ten minutes before, she had felt all the joy of irreflective action—a joy to which she had so long been a stranger; but action had been suddenly changed to slow renunciation, transformed by the blight of her husband’s touch.

    Chapter LI 1917

  • Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.

    democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916

  • And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.

    The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

  • It cannot be denied that the transition from atrocious prosecutions to divine honors was somewhat sudden, but this is merely a further proof that Caligula was endowed with a violent, impulsive, and irreflective temperament.

    The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

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