'Reflexive' definitions:
Definition of 'reflexive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: automatic, reflex(a), reflexive]
adjective
Referring back to itself [syn: reflexive, self-referent]
noun
A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent [syn: reflexive pronoun, reflexive]
Definition of 'Reflexive'
From: GCIDE
- Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
- 1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. [1913 Webster]
- Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?" --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. [1913 Webster] -- {Re*flex"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*flex"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reflexive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- active,
- active voice,
- antiphonal,
- automatic,
- blind,
- casual,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- forced,
- gut,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- mechanical,
- medio-passive,
- middle,
- middle voice,
- passive,
- passive voice,
- reacting,
- reactionary,
- reactive,
- reflex,
- refluent,
- respondent,
- responding,
- responsive,
- retroactionary,
- retroactive,
- revulsive,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- unadvised,
- uncalculated,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- voice
Words containing 'Reflexive'
- Reflex,
- Reflexed,
- Reflexibility,
- Reflexible,
- Reflexity,
- Reflexively,
- Reflexiveness,
- reflexivity,
- Patellar reflex,
- Reflex action,
- Reflex nerve,
- Tendon reflex,
- accommodation reflex,
- acquired reflex,
- act reflexively,
- babinski reflex,
- conditional reflex,
- conditioned reflex,
- defecation reflex,
- gag reflex,
- inborn reflex,
- innate reflex,
- instinctive reflex,
- light reflex,
- micturition reflex,
- moro reflex,
- move reflexively,
- myotactic reflex,
- pharyngeal reflex,
- pilomotor reflex,
- plantar reflex,
- pupillary reflex,
- rectal reflex,
- reflex angle,
- reflex arc,
- reflex camera,
- reflex epilepsy,
- reflex response,
- reflexive pronoun,
- reflexive verb,
- rooting reflex,
- startle reflex,
- stretch reflex,
- suckling reflex,
- unconditioned reflex,
- knee-jerk reflex