reflexive pronoun

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsreflexive

   Broaderpersonal pronoun

Questions about reflexive pronoun

What does reflexive pronoun mean?

reflexive pronoun means "a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent".

What is another word for reflexive pronoun?

Close synonyms include reflexive. 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 pronoun a common word?

reflexive pronoun 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.