Synonyms of unreflective

unreflective

adjective

as in flippant

Related Words

• flippant
• goofy
• frivolous
• scatterbrained
• unthinking
• thoughtless
• flighty
• harebrained
• featherbrained
• mindless
• light-headed
• brainless
• silly

Dissimilar Words

• reflective
• thoughtful
• contemplative
• pensive
• melancholy
• ruminative
• meditative
• ruminant
• introspective
• broody
• cogitative
• retrospective
• serious
• musing
• earnest
• solemn
• severe
• somber
• self-reflective
• sober
• grave
• sedate
• weighty
• serious-minded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unreflective

The algae is a perfect metaphor to reflect on our unreflective president and his impulsive and solipsistic style of governing. — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 23 June 2026

The Stranger is about an almost totally passive and unreflective character, a man whose sole moment of agency appears to be the random act of violence that condemns him to the guillotine. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2026

Impulses are unreflective urges or a strong desire to act without thinking. — Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025

These people are concerned that the superficial—attention to looks—will obscure and distract us from what is truly significant, turning us into unserious and unreflective people incapable of making the best of what’s left. — Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025

The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo. — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023

The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests. — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022

The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power. — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022