reflexive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reflexive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for reflexive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexive 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" Synonym(s): automatic, reflex(a), reflexive referring back to itself Synonym(s): reflexive, self-referent n a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent Synonym(s): reflexive pronoun, reflexive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reflexive \Reflex"ive\ (-?v), a. 1. [Cf. F. r[82]flexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive* can not be a divine faith. --Hammond. 2. Implying censure. [Obs.] [bd]What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?[b8] --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. -- {Reflex"ively}, adv. -- {Reflex"iveness}, n.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
reflexive A {relation} R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x. {Equivalence relations}, {pre-orders}, {partial orders} and {total orders} are all reflexive. (1999-01-28)