Word Meanings - REFLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden. 2. To give back an image

Additional info about word: REFLECT

1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden. 2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFLECT)

• Cogitate
• Think
• ruminate
• reflect
• meditate
• brood
• speculate
• contemplate
• ponder
• muse
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• think
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• infer
• deduce
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• deem
• Deliberate Consider
• consult
• debate
• perpend
• Muse
• Reflect
• dream
• Reverberate
• Echo
• recoil
• revert
• resound

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REFLECT)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to REFLECT)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• INFEROBRANCHIATA
  A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• INFERRIBLE
  Inferable.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.