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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent;
[syn: reflexive pronoun, reflexive]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. without volition or conscious control;
- Example: "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"
- Example: "a reflex knee jerk"
- Example: "sneezing is reflexive"
[syn: automatic, reflex(a), reflexive]

2. referring back to itself;
[syn: reflexive, self-referent]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a. 1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. [1913 Webster] Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. --Hammond. [1913 Webster] 2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?" --South. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reflexive adj 1: 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), reflexive] 2: referring back to itself [syn: reflexive, self-referent] n 1: a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent [syn: reflexive pronoun, reflexive]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

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)