reflexive
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
Types & categories
- personal pronoun hypernym
Related & opposite
- self-referent derivation
Sense 2 adjective
without volition or conscious control
the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light
Related & opposite
- reflex derivation
- physiology domain topic
- involuntary similar to
Sense 3 adjective
referring back to itself
Related & opposite
- reflexive pronoun derivation
- reflexivity derivation
- grammar domain topic
- backward similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | self-referent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | personal pronoun |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reflex |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physiology |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | involuntary |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reflexive pronoun |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reflexivity |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | grammar |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | backward |