reflex

Speech parts

1. reflex - Noun

2. reflex - Adjective

3. reflex - Verb

4. reflex - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.

Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.

To reflect.

To bend back; to turn back.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reflex action knee-jerk reaction twitch response reflexion reaction mechanical automatic reflection unconscious ancestor spontaneous impulse innate intuitive
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Antonyms

foundation beginning cause base basis origin
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Hypernyms

response reaction

Hyponyms

start wink sneeze wind shock jump

Phrases with the word

grasp reflex Achilles tendon reflex time asymmetric tonic neck reflex march reflex positive support reflex blink reflex

Anagrams

flexer

Examples

The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. Karl Marx

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Norman Vincent Peale

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. Emma Goldman

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. Jim Butcher

There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him. Gregory Benford

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex. Carl von Clausewitz

Close letter words and terms

reflectron reflet reflet tile reflex action reflex angle reflex arc