Thesaurus / reflexes
other words for reflexes
- answer
- attitude
- backlash
- feedback
- feeling
- opinion
- reception
- reply
- return
- acknowledgment
- backfire
- boomerang
- comeback
- compensation
- counteraction
- counterbalance
- counterpoise
- echo
- hit
- kick
- kickback
- lip
- rebound
- receptivity
- reciprocation
- recoil
- reflection
- reflex
- rejoinder
- repercussion
- retort
- reverberation
- revulsion
- sass
- take
- vibes
- wisecrack
- back talk
- double-take
- knee-jerk
- reagency
- snappy comeback
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The blackness started to reel down, but my reflexes are fast and I made one swift, scrabbling step forward.
THE DOOR THROUGH SPACEMARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
A little rubber hammer came out next and was applied to the reflexes of the stricken scientist.
THE ELECTRONIC MIND READERJOHN BLAINE
Though often useful enough, they are not so fundamentally necessary as the reflexes.
PSYCHOLOGYROBERT S. WOODWORTH
Were it not for reflexes and habits, learning would be so slow one lifetime would not suffice to make an artist.
VOICE PRODUCTION IN SINGING AND SPEAKINGWESLEY MILLS
The lure of great cities is perhaps a consequence of stimulations which act directly upon the reflexes.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARK
But as this suggestion cannot apply to other reflexes presently to be adduced, it need not be considered.
DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN, VOLUME II (OF 3)GEORGE JOHN ROMANES
For the first time in his memory his reflexes got away from him.
THE STRENGTH OF THE PINESEDISON MARSHALL
He talked about sensory stimuli and responses, and about conditioned reflexes.
LITTLE FUZZYHENRY BEAM PIPER
It must be apparent that habits and reflexes are Nature's ways of economizing energy.
VOICE PRODUCTION IN SINGING AND SPEAKINGWESLEY MILLS
There was neither ankle nor patellar clonus, and the other reflexes were present and normal.
SURGICAL EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900GEORGE HENRY MAKINS