| a. | 1. | Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. |
| 2. | Implying censure. | |
| 3. | (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; - said of certain verbs; |
| Noun | 1. | reflexive - a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent Synonyms: reflexive pronoun |
| Adj. | 1. | reflexive - without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" |
| 2. | reflexive - referring back to itself Synonyms: self-referent |
| (theory) | 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. |
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