Reflexive: Definition with Reflexive Pictures and Photos

1. Noun. A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent.

Exact synonyms: Reflexive Pronoun
Generic synonyms: Personal Pronoun

2. Adjective. Without volition or conscious control. "Sneezing is reflexive"

Exact synonyms: Automatic, Reflex
Category relationships: Physiology
Similar to: Involuntary
Derivative terms: Reflex

3. Adjective. Referring back to itself.

Exact synonyms: Self-referent
Category relationships: Grammar
Similar to: Backward
Derivative terms: Reflexiveness, Reflexivity

1. a. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

1. [n -S]

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