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. - MUSTELINE
Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens. - 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. - 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.