deflective

1. 1.

   capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)

   Synonymsrefractive

   Similarcrooked

Questions about deflective

What does deflective mean?

deflective means "capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)".

How many syllables are in deflective?

deflective has 3 syllables: de-flec-tive. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for deflective?

Close synonyms include refractive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deflective a common word?

deflective is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.