Usually means: Self-directed or relating back internally.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word reflexive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflexive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reflexive: Merriam-Webster
  3. reflexive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reflexive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reflexive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reflexive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reflexive, reflexive: Wordnik
  8. reflexive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reflexive: Wiktionary
  10. reflexive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reflexive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reflexive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. reflexive: Dictionary.com
  14. reflexive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reflexive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reflexive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reflexive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reflexive: Rhymezone
  19. reflexive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reflexive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reflexive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reflexive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reflexive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reflexive: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflexive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. reflexive: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. reflexive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflexive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflexive: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reflexive: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Reflexive, reflexive, reflexive, reflexive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics) 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).
▸ adjective:  Of or resulting from a reflex.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Producing immediate response, spontaneous.
▸ adjective:  Synonym of reflective
▸ noun:  (grammar) A reflexive pronoun.
▸ noun:  (grammar) A reflexive verb.

Similar:
reflexive pronoun, automatic, backward, reflex, involuntary, self-referent, refl., reciprocal, reflective, coreferent, more...

Opposite:
non-reflexive

Types:
myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, themselves, more...

Phrases:
reflexive pronoun, reflexive pronouns, reflexive verbs, reflexive verb, Reflexive relation, more...

Adjectives:
indirect, emphatic, verbal, weak, self, direct, true, distance, possessive, english, primary

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Similar:
reflexive pronoun, automatic, backward, reflex, involuntary, self-referent, refl., reciprocal, reflective, coreferent, more...

Opposite:
non-reflexive

Types:
myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, themselves, more...

Phrases:
reflexive pronoun, reflexive pronouns, reflexive verbs, reflexive verb, Reflexive relation, reflexive closure, self reflexive, reflexive transitive closure, reflexive domain, reflexive banach space, more...

Adjectives:
indirect, emphatic, verbal, weak, self, direct, true, distance, possessive, english, primary

Colors:
    silver,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     slate gray,     teal, more...



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