Crossword clues for reflexive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
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[Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
--Hammond. Implying censure. [Obs.] ``What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?''
--South.(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. [1913 Webster] -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "reflective, capable of bending or turning back," from Medieval Latin reflexivus, from Late Latin reflexus (see reflect). Meaning "of the nature of a reflex" is from 1839 (implied in reflexively). Grammatical sense from 1837. Related: Reflexiveness; reflexivity.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context grammar English) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject. 2 (context set theory English) Of a relation ''R'' on a set ''S'', such that ''xRx'' for all members ''x'' of ''S'' (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself). 3 Of or resulting from a reflex. 4 (context figurative English) Producing immediate response, spontaneous. n. A reflexive pronoun.
WordNet
adj. without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: automatic, reflex(a)]
referring back to itself [syn: self-referent]
n. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent [syn: reflexive pronoun]
Wikipedia
Reflexive may refer to:
In fiction:
- Metafiction
In grammar:
- Reflexive pronoun, a pronoun with a reflexive relationship with its self-identical antecedent
- Reflexive verb, where a semantic agent and patient are the same
In mathematics and computer science:
- Reflexive relation, a relation where elements of a set are self-related
- Reflexive user interface, an interface that permits its own command verbs and sometimes underlying code to be edited
- Reflexive operator algebra, an operator algebra that has enough invariant subspaces to characterize it
- Reflexive space, a subset of Banach spaces
- Reflexive bilinear form, a bilinear form for which the order of a pair of vectors does not affect whether it evaluates to zero.
In biology
- Reflexive antagonism, the phenomenon by which muscles with opposing functions tend to antagonistically inhibit each other.
Other uses:
- Reflexive Entertainment, a video game developer
- Reflexivity (social theory), a concept in social theory relating to the capacity of an individual agent to act against influences of socialization and social structure
Usage examples of "reflexive".
Since these responses are entirely, or almost entirely, lacking in microcephali and in children born deaf, they are not purely reflexive, like sneezing, e.
Banichi and Jago to know the situation as fully as possible, predigested for atevi comprehension: he did what he could to make it understood in shorthand, and he gave a second, reflexive bow of respect to a man of pragmatic combativeness and considerable virtue.
The lamps flicker, wicks running dry but as he takes his place with the other laborers at the back of the nave as he murmurs reflexive words of prayer, the sacrist makes a startled exclamation and halts halfway down the aisle.
The lamps flicker, wicks running dry but as he takes his place with the other laborers at the back of the nave as he murmurs reflexive words of prayer, the sacrist makes a startled exclamation and halts halfway down the aisle.
Almost immediately he picked up a sharp, reflexive response, but he overinterpreted its true meaning and mistakenly assumed it was because Amuro was far more advanced as a New Type than either Sha Aznable or Kusko Al.
Today, when most vehicles are alive, and hence softer and slower, more armadilloes survive their peculiar reflexive response.
She'd reached through the fencing that saved her life when it absorbed the reflexive buttstroke that would have crushed her sternum and flung her backwards.
It was impossible to make sense of them in terms of any kind of temporal sequence or alternation of scenes, and they resisted all the reflexive attempts of my mind to knit them together into any kind of coherency, but they did have a theme of sorts, and that theme was the consumption of human flesh.
As the internal dramas play out and manifest themselves from an individual, the "who is" (label applied to another) often changes as their human form dependency dictates that it must, and since this process is unthinkingly reflexive, owed to the turbulence within of conflicting dependencies, the decision "who/what is" another, is also an illusion.
Was there a way to kill a Band in the guise of making love, perhaps by means of some horrible thought that would force reflexive disbanding, and was that what she planned to do?
Hearing a shout behind him, Drew turned in reflexive alarm, but never did learn its source.
Perhaps sending Bogard out like this was as much a reflexive attempt at verifying its perceptions as anything else.
A small sting on Ms cheek elicits a fast reflexive slap from Ms right hand.
His visit to sickbay had revealed the extent of Zimmerman's malfunctions, but the doctor had been back at work, analyzing the reflexive effects of the neural tissue.
They've got a mating season-Dawson said so too, and emphasized it-and their mating practice is more reflexive than ours.