 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reflexive
adjective
1: 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)}]
2: referring back to itself [syn: {self-referent}]
noun: a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's
action affects the agent [syn: {reflexive pronoun}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), adjective
1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
reflective; having respect to something past.
Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
--Hammond.
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}, adverb --
{Re*flex"ive*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "reflexive":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
reflexive
A {relation} R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.
{Equivalence relations}, {pre-orders}, {partial orders} and
{total orders} are all reflexive.
(1999-01-28)
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