reflexive

[Re*flex·ive]

Something reflexive is completely involuntary. You can't help it. You might give a reflexive scream of fright if a bat flies in your face.

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

Noun
a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent''s action affects the agent

Adjective S.
referring back to itself

Adjective S.
without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"


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

a.
Implying censure.

a.
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.


Reflexive

Re*flex"ive (-?v), a. 1. [Cf. F. r'82flexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?" South. 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. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.

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

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