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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•flex•ive /rɪˈflɛksɪv/USA pronunciation adj. - Grammar
- (of a verb) taking an object that refers to the same person or thing as the subject, such as cut in I cut myself.
- (of a pronoun) used as an object referring to the same person or thing as the subject, such as myself in I cut myself.
- responding by way of a reflex:a reflexive act of self-preservation.
n. [countable] - Grammara reflexive verb or pronoun.
re•flex•ive•ly, adv. See -flex-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•flex•ive (ri flek′siv),USA pronunciation adj. - Grammar
- (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself.
- (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reflex; responsive.
- able to reflect;
reflective. - Mathematics
- noting a relation in which each element is in relation to itself, as the relation "less than or equal to.'' Cf. antireflexive.
- (of a vector space) having the property that the dual space of the dual space of the given vector space equals the given vector space.
n. - Grammara reflexive verb or pronoun.
- Medieval Latin reflexīvus turned back, reflected. See reflex, -ive
- 1580–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: reflexive /rɪˈflɛksɪv/ adj - denoting a class of pronouns that refer back to the subject of a sentence or clause. Thus, in the sentence that man thinks a great deal of himself, the pronoun himself is reflexive
- denoting a verb used transitively with the reflexive pronoun as its direct object, as the French se lever "to get up" (literally "to raise oneself") or English to dress oneself
- of or relating to a reflex
n - a reflexive pronoun or verb
reˈflexively adv reˈflexiveness, reflexivity /ˌriːflɛkˈsɪvɪtɪ/ n |