1. Without volition or conscious control
   "sneezing is reflexive"
   - automatic, reflex 
2. Referring back to itself
   - self-referent

1. A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
   - reflexive pronoun

Derived forms: reflexives

See also: backward, involuntary, reflexiveness

Type of: personal pronoun

Encyclopedia: Reflexive

• nightshade
• nightshirt
• nightspot
• nightstand
• nightstick
• nighttime
• nightwalker
• nightwear
• nightwork
• nighty
• nigra
• nigrescent
• nigrify
• Nigroporus
• Nigroporus vinosus
• NIH
• nihil
• nihil obstat
• nihilism
• nihilist
• nihilistic
• nihilistic delusion
• nihility
• Nihon
• Niihau