Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
- 2adjective
Implying censure.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4noun
a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
- 5adjective
referring back to itself
- 6adjective
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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