Reflexive (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. Grammar.
    • (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself.
    • (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
  2. reflex; responsive.
  3. able to reflect; reflective.
  4. Mathematics.
    • noting a relation in which each element is in relation to itself, as the relation “less than or equal to.”
    • (of a vector space) having the property that the dual space of the dual space of the given vector space equals the given vector space.
noun
  1. a reflexive verb or pronoun.
adjective
  1. denoting a class of pronouns that refer back to the subject of a sentence or clause. Thus, in the sentence that man thinks a great deal of himself, the pronoun himself is reflexive
  2. denoting a verb used transitively with the reflexive pronoun as its direct object, as the French se lever "to get up" (literally "to raise oneself") or English to dress oneself
  3. of or relating to a reflex
  4. (of a relation) holding between any member of its domain and itself
noun
  1. a reflexive pronoun or verb
    Reflexive (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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