reflexive

Plural: reflexives

Noun

• a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
• A reflexive pronoun.
• A reflexive verb.

Adjective Satellite

• without volition or conscious control
  • "sneezing is reflexive"
• referring back to itself

Adj

• Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
• 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).
• Of or resulting from a reflex.
• Producing immediate response, spontaneous.
• Producing or provoking a reciprocal response.
• Synonym of reflective.

Examples

• "Equals" is a reflexive relation, as it holds for all possible x; "not less" is non-reflexive because it is true only for some x and y, "unequal" is irreflexive, as it never holds between x and itself.
• a reflexive dislike
• The electric shock elicited an automatic and reflexive response from him.

Synonyms

automatic, reflex, reflexive pronoun, self-referent, reflective

Antonyms

irreflexive, non-reflexive, nonreflexive

Related Words

active, intransitive, irreflexive, neuter, passive, symmetric, transitive

Anagrams of reflexive