reflexive

1. 1.

   a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent

   Synonymsreflexive pronoun

   Broaderpersonal pronoun

Other forms of reflexive

plural

reflexives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reflexive

What does reflexive mean?

reflexive means "without volition or conscious control". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reflexive?

reflexive has 3 syllables: re-flex-ive. The stress falls on "flex". In IPA it is /ɹəˈflɛksɪv/.

What is another word for reflexive?

Close synonyms include automatic, reflex, self-referent, reflexive pronoun. 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 reflexive a common word?

reflexive 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.