unreflectingadj.n.

1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity v. 49 Unreflecting and unredoubting persons.

1704 J. Trapp Abra-Mule ii. i. 498 Ill Success Renders a Sultan odious in the Eyes Of th' unreflecting Vulgar.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. iii. 26 I place them to the account of an honest unreflecting indignation.

1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation v. 128 The unreflecting simplicity of that early faith.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xiii. 309 She did not reflect..she was unreflecting, feeling only a beyond and hidden.

1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree 301 That unreflecting peace which is shed into some hearts by communion with trees and sky.

1958 L. Cottrell Bull of Minos xiv. 149 Unreflecting visitors to Knossos have sometimes criticized Evans for his ‘reinforced concrete restoration’. Such criticisms are unintelligent; he had no alternative.

2012 I. Jessen Children i. 28 She was unreflecting and playful, and if he stopped she urged him on.

1787 Town & Country Mag. July 315/1 I, for my part, can see nothing but the black unreflecting surface of self-love!

1834 Archit. Mag. May 143 Instead of being boarded or paved in the usual manner, [the floor] presents a dull or unreflecting surface, so that, when any pulses of sound shall have once fallen upon it, they are never returned to the roof.

1912 J. S. Taylor Princ. & Methods teaching Reading viii. 202 A flat, unreflecting surface is necessary for school books.

1992 M. Vidal Watteau's Painted Conversat. 185 The overturned portrait and the unreflecting mirrors tell us that art ultimately depends as much on other artworks as it does on ‘reality’.

2013 Q. A. Acton Fluorinated Hydrocarbons iii. 55 The inside of the antineutrino detectors should be as unreflecting as possible.

1726 R. Blackmore Treat. Spleen & Vapours (new ed.) 272 The Blockheads, Sots, Blunderers, half Ideots, perpetual Laughers, and the Unreflecting, who are in a Surprize at every Event.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xli. 281 The censures of the busy and the unreflecting.

1830 C. Telfair Acct. State of Slavery 25 The thoughtless censure of the frivolous and of the unreflecting.

1863 R. Pearson Anal. Human Mind iv. 43 In general, the unreflecting are unreasonable, rash, and aimless. Reflection does not supply rules and principles, but it is one of the best means for adopting the right and rejecting the bad.

1915 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 545 It is in taking for granted that this indirect contact with the world is all, that the unreflecting are most mistaken.

2006 P. Parrinder Nation & Novel iii. 75 Dreams, voices, impulses, hints, apprehensions, and other phenomena which the unreflecting would be likely to dismiss as merely accidental.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 6 The habitual unreflectingness, which..may be susceptible of more or less palliation.

1873 Record 15 Oct. 16/2 To some, in their unreflectingness, the task may appear an easy one from the extravagance of the follies and absurdities which the whole involves.

1987 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 11 Jan. 21 It addresses a New World audience, for which such unreflectingness is normal and admirable and greatly sought after.