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/rɪflˈɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Reflective adj.

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. "In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms."

Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason. "His perceptive and reflective faculties... thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development."

Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.

(Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. "Reflectiveness of manner."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reflective" Quotes from Famous Books

... his grey moustaches with a reflective air. "Let me see; what would satisfy you, now, ...

— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... seem to have done nothing but sit with their mouths open, admiring her; and she really is very much improved, positively grown a reflective creature, and the most graceful as well as the prettiest of the family. She would be almost a beau ideal of a sister, if she had but a few more home feelings, or, as you say, if she did not like the Stauntons quite so much. I ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... that the latter course is the only one we can follow as reflective men. Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I am, therefore, myself a complete empiricist so far as my theory of human knowledge goes. I live, to be sure, by the practical faith that we must ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... word I handed him the great dictionary, and he fingered the dog-eared pages with a critical and reflective air. ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... on which the sun's rays strike is of greater reflecting power in some than in others. One of the brightest things in Nature that we can imagine is a bank of snow in sunlight; it is so dazzling that we have to look away or wink hard at the sight; and the reflective power of the surface of Venus is as dazzling as if she were made of snow. This is probably because the light strikes on the upper surface of the clouds which surround her. In great contrast to this is the surface of Mercury, which reflects ...

— The Children's Book of Stars • G.E. Mitton

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