REFLEXIVE


Meaning of REFLEXIVE in English

adj. & n. Gram.

--adj.

1. (of a word or form) referring back to the subject of a sentence (esp. of a pronoun, e.g. myself).

2 (of a verb) having a reflexive pronoun as its object (as in to wash oneself).

--n. a reflexive word or form, esp. a pronoun.

Derivatives:

reflexively adv. reflexiveness n. reflexivity n.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.