reflexive

reflexive is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
2. adjective. Implying censure.
3. adjective. 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.
4. noun. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
5. adjective. referring back to itself
6. adjective. without volition or conscious control

   "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"

   "a reflex knee jerk"

   Synonyms: automatic, reflex

Synonyms

automatic, reflex

Common word forms

reflexives, reflexively, reflexiveness

Words from these letters

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