Thesaurus: reflexive

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1. a. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
2. a. Implying censure.
3. a. 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. adj. without volition or conscious control
5. adj. referring back to itself
6. n. a personal pronoun compounded with ‘-self’ to show the agent's action affects the agent
7. 1. word/etym">Etym: [Cf. F. réflexif.] word/bending">Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. 2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South. 3. (Gram.) 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. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n. In a reflex manner; reflectively.
8. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect tosomething past.Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.
9. n:100 s. referring back to itself