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Webster 1913 Edition


Irreflective

Irˊre-flect′ive

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Adj.
Not reflective.
De Quincey.

Definition 2024


irreflective

irreflective

English

Adjective

irreflective (comparative more irreflective, superlative most irreflective)

  1. Without mental reflection.
    • 1899, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3:
      He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.
    • 1911, Guglielmo Ferrero, The Women of the Caesars:
      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.