Antonyms of adj reflective

3 senses of reflective

Sense 1
brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";)

INDIRECT (VIA thoughtful) -> thoughtless -- (showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering")

Sense 2
reflective (vs. nonreflective) -- (capable of physically reflecting light or sound; "a reflective surface")

nonreflective (vs. reflective), nonreflecting -- (not capable of physical reflection)
        => echoless -- (having or producing no echo; "the echoless darkness")

Sense 3
reflective -- (devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type")

INDIRECT (VIA intellectual) -> nonintellectual -- (not intellectual)

Similarity of adj reflective

3 senses of reflective

Sense 1
brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative -- (deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";)
       => thoughtful (vs. thoughtless) -- (exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper")

Sense 2
reflective (vs. nonreflective) -- (capable of physically reflecting light or sound; "a reflective surface")
       => mirrorlike, specular -- (capable of reflecting light like a mirror; "mirrorlike surface of the lake"; "a specular metal")
       => reflecting -- (causing reflection or having a device that reflects; "a reflecting microscope")

Sense 3
reflective -- (devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type")
       => intellectual (vs. nonintellectual) -- (appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature")

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