Dictionary Entry
reflex
reflex is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
- 2adjective
Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
- 3adjective
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
- 4noun
Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- 5noun
An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
- 6transitive verb
To reflect.
- 7transitive verb
To bend back; to turn back.
- 8noun
an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
- 9adjective
without volition or conscious control
"the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"
"a reflex knee jerk"
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