unreflecting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not giving reflection or thought to one's actions, words, conclusions, etc.; (of an action, statement, conclusion, etc.) done without reflection or thought. (of a person)
Example Sentences
- "Now what Discourse can be more suited to the Principles of these young Cubs of the Leviathan, than not to punish credulous and unreflecting People for being cheated and abused?"
- "When culprit reason truant plays, And wanders forth in fancy’s maze, Thy random shafts may please a-while, And raise the unreflecting smile, But soon as absent sense returns, Our cheek with indignation burns,"
- "If there are people so unreflecting or so cruel, as to make a jest of me, what is left for me to do but to make a jest of myself, them, and every thing?"
- "[…] there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity."
- "How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation, Dresden figures of pastoral gaiety!"
- "[…] a mirror may have picturesque beauty; but it is only from it's reflections. In an unreflecting state, it is insipid."
Etymology
From un- + reflecting.
Inflected Forms
more unreflecting (comparative)
most unreflecting (superlative)