Word Meanings - REFLECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reflexive; reciprocal. -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp. (more info) 1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.

Additional info about word: REFLECTIVE

Reflexive; reciprocal. -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp. (more info) 1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior. 2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason. Prior. His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development. Motley. 3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFLECTIVE)

• Considerate
• Thoughtful
• attentive
• forbearing
• unselfish
• judicious
• serious
• prudent
• circumspect
• reflective
• careful
• cautious
• Pensive
• Meditative
• ruminating
• thoughtful
• musing
• impressed
• melancholy
• sober
• dejected
• Studious
• Literary
• diligent
• desirous
• assiduous
• Careful
• provident
• contemplative
• considerate
• anxious
• pensive
• cogitative
• regardful
• mindful
• heedful

Related words: (words related to REFLECTIVE)

• SOBERLY
  Grave; serious; solemn; sad. looked hollow and thereto soberly. Chaucer.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• MUSQUAW
  The American black bear. See Bear.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• MUSCAT
  A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• MUSTELINE
  Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.
• CONTEMPLATIVE
  1. Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham. 2. Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties. Ray.
• MEDITATIVE
  Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ness, n.
• MUSCLING
  Exhibition or representation of the muscles. A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
• MUSTY
  1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat
• RUMINATE; RUMINATED
  Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
• RUMINATOR
  One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MUSICAL
  1. Music. To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser. 2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• CHIASMUS
  An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence; thus, If e'er to bless thy sons My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.
• MUSCIFORM
  Having the form or structure of flies of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.