reflexive
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6.8
- adjective
- /rɪˈflɛksɪv/
- Specialized
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reflexivo
- When the doctor tapped his knee, the reflexive kick confirmed that the nerves were functioning properly.
- reflexive response
- reflexive action
- self-reflexive
What organ has this mediating and reflexive function?
- What organ has this mediating and reflexive function?
- Yeah, it's so easy and reflexive to just grab the phone.
- So movement is just like thoughts can be either reflexive or deliberate.
- Because trauma makes in us a reflexive response of guilt and shame.
- So the reflexive behavior doesn't happen.
- The trauma bonds make that social media scanning seem almost reflexive.
- But what you're saying is that for so many people, that performance has been reflexive, subconscious.
- It's not really rewiring these deeply reflexive circuits.
- You're going to default to some of those reflexive systems if energy is diminished in the heart.
- And again, while we are doing the thing that the driver, the fond response, it's reflexive, it's not codependency, it's safety.
- He's developed so much neuroplasticity that it's reflexive for him to just move towards the hard thing or the challenge or the discomfort, right?
- We can't change the past by a reflexive response isn't going to do that efficiently.
- Add to this the fact that rape can initiate the involuntary reflexive process of conception.
- But it's like, you know, just so reflexive.
Examples
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So it, there was a reflexive reaction to reject what I was saying.
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Many members of the profession may also need to get past a reflexive fear of sensationalism.
Academic text (2005) -
Yeah, it's so easy and reflexive to just grab the phone.
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The techniques have to become a reflexive action.
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Because trauma makes in us a reflexive response of guilt and shame.
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Sometimes you could almost hear the reflexive frisson of relief.
Fiction book (1998) -
I noticed an almost reflexive desire to keep sculptures from exposure, whatever the circumstances.
Academic text (1997) -
However, because progressivism is by nature reflexive and critical, living with progressivism and its values is not easy.
Academic text (2010) -
Joel saw the Adam's apple bob in a reflexive swallowing motion.
Fiction book (2000) -
You do not want to create reflexive distrust in people such that if there is the very threat that they've been warned about, they dismiss it.
Synonyms
48
3.7
Done without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
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4.1
A natural quick action or feeling that happens without thinking
Happens automatically without thinking as a quick response to something
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A verb where one person does and receives the action, using words like 'myself'
- Specialized
A pronoun like myself that points back to the person, animal, or thing doing the action
How Automatic
73
5.4
28
4.1
48
3.7
- Specialized
7
6.8
125
4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reflexive comes from the parts re- 'back' and flect 'to bend', the same root as flex and reflect. Think of a quick movement that 'bends back' from your body without thinking, so a reflexive action happens automatically.