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synonyms for reflexive

  • compulsory
  • forced
  • spontaneous
  • uncontrolled
  • unintentional
  • automatic
  • begrudging
  • blind
  • conditioned
  • grudging
  • habitual
  • impulsive
  • instinctive
  • instinctual
  • knee-jerk
  • obligatory
  • reflex
  • reluctant
  • uncalculated
  • unconscious
  • unintended
  • unmeditated
  • unpremeditated
  • unprompted
  • unthinking
  • unwilling
  • unwitting
  • will-less
On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reflexive, such as: compulsory, forced, spontaneous, uncontrolled, unintentional, and automatic.

antonyms for reflexive

MOST RELEVANT
  • deliberate
  • intended
  • planned
  • voluntary
  • conscious
  • intentional
  • unforced
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How to use reflexive in a sentence

Much of it also seems reflexive, as if the governor is a puppet and his own ambition is pulling the strings.
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Although I didn’t know it at the time, my reflexive retreats into abstract realms was the nursery in which my individuality was fostered as a teenager.
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It becomes distorted, and is untethered from the reflexive and generative environment in which it was created, and can be used to serve quite different purposes.
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Counterfactual information generation allows a conscious agent to detach itself from the environment and perform non-reflexive behavior, such as waiting for three seconds before acting.
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Taking a self-reflexive turn, she argued that high school oratory had become a race to one-up competitors with ever more harrowing personal stories.
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The termination uba is that of the third person of reflexive verbs.
THE MAYA CHRONICLESVARIOUS
The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, reflexive or cognate object.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND
Alteration to hine would give a common reflexive use, rejoices; comp.
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Her indignation at the woman who had supplanted her swept over her with a reflexive flush of heat.
THE CITY OF DELIGHTELIZABETH MILLER
I think I put out my hand, or made some other reflexive gesture to stop her, but either she failed to notice or misunderstood.
GREENER THAN YOU THINKWARD MOORE
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