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形容詞

unreflecting (comparative more unreflecting, superlative most unreflecting)

1. (of a person) Not giving reflection or thought to one's actions, words, conclusions, etc.; (of an action, statement, conclusion, etc.) done without reflection or thought.

   Synonym: impulsive

   • 1671, Samuel Parker, A Defence and Continuation of the Ecclesiastical Politie, London: J. Martyn, Chapter 7, p. 569,^[1]

     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?

   • 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, London: George Kearsly, p. 22,^[2]

     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,

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156, page 326:

     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?

   • 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness in Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1902, p. 142,^[3]

     […] there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity.

   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, OCLC 54130892, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 56:

     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!