Australian English Meaning of reflexive

reflexive

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Definitions and Meaning of reflexive in English

Wordnet

reflexive (n)

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

Wordnet

reflexive (s)

without volition or conscious control

referring back to itself

Webster

reflexive (a.)

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

Implying censure.

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.

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reflexive

a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent, without volition or conscious control, referring back to itselfBending or

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reflexity => Reflexivity, reflexion => reflection, reflexible => flexible, reflexibility => reflexivity, reflexed => reflexed,