REFLEXIVE
\ɹɪflˈɛksɪv], \ɹɪflˈɛksɪv], \ɹ_ɪ_f_l_ˈɛ_k_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of REFLEXIVE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
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referring back to itself
By Princeton University
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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In grammar, expressing an action that goes back to the subject; as, in the sentence she helps herself, helps is a reflexive verb; showing the same person or thing as the subject; as, in she behaves herself, herself is a reflexive pronoun.
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A pronoun or verb that refers back to the subject.
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Reflexively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Reflexively.
By Daniel Lyons
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Reflexively.
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Referring to it self or its subject; as, a reflexive verb whose object denotes the same person or thing as its subject.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
