Reflexive

What do we mean by reflexive?

Directed back on itself. adjective

Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself. adjective

Of, relating to, or being the pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb, as herself in She dressed herself. adjective

Of or relating to a reflex. adjective

Elicited automatically; spontaneous. adjective

A reflexive verb or pronoun. noun

Reflective; bending or turning backward; having respect to something past.

Capable of reflection; reflective.

Casting or containing a reflection or censure.

A reflexive verb or pronoun. noun

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

Implying censure. adjective

Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs adjective

Having a subject and object that are the same. adjective

Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself). adjective

A reflexive pronoun. noun

A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent noun

Without volition or conscious control adjective

Referring back to itself adjective

That reflects, or redirects back to the source.

Pondering, especially thinking back on the past.

That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of.

Involving reflection.

(grammar) Reciprocal.

Words that are spelled similarly to reflexive:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word reflexive:
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Words that rhyme with reflexive:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe reflexive:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective reflexive:
pronoun, pronouns, verbs, response, form, consciousness, relation, awareness, modernization, process, verb, responses, nature, action, behavior, forms, sociology, relationship, approach, closure, modernity, use, constructions, construction, character, activity, self, project, analysis, act, turn, knowledge, sense, movements, practice, meaning, object, movement, behaviors, interpretation, monitoring, language, mode, relations, modernisation, thought, processes, reaction, stance, sentences, actions, thinking, critique, control, quality, manner, theory, account, clitic, dimension, property, marker, reactions, understanding, function, reference, element, perspectives, anthropology, ethnography, discourse, practices, clitics, attitude, questions, moment, methodology, accounts, patterns, capacity, thesis, communication, abstraction, rule, saccades, voice, subject, aspect, questioning, strategies, binding.

Words that sound like reflexive:
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