Reflexive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Directed back on itself.
  • adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself.
  • adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being the pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb, as herself in She dressed herself.
  • adj. Of or relating to a reflex.
  • adj. Elicited automatically; spontaneous: "a bid for . . . reflexive left-wing approval” ( Marshall Delaney).
  • n. Grammar A reflexive verb or pronoun. See Usage Note at myself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a subject and object that are the same.
  • adj. 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).
  • n. A reflexive pronoun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
  • adj. Implying censure.
  • adj. Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Reflective; bending or turning backward; having respect to something past.
  • Capable of reflection; reflective.
  • Casting or containing a reflection or censure.
  • n. A reflexive verb or pronoun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
  • adj. without volition or conscious control
  • adj. referring back to itself
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    involuntary    backward   
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