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/rɪflˈɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Reflective adj.

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. "In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms."

Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason. "His perceptive and reflective faculties... thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development."

Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.

(Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. "Reflectiveness of manner."

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... good as a play," chuckled the attentive Keyte. Ansell, too, had been blessed with relatives in the service, and slowly, in a lazy drawl—his style was more reflective than Stalky's—descended the abysmal ...

— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

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... a reflective turn of mind, walking through an exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people's hilarity. An episode of humour or kindness touches and amuses him here and there—a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

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... one knows, are disposed to question this superior intelligence of women; their egoism demands the denial, and they are seldom reflective enough to dispose of it by logical and evidential analysis. Moreover, as we shall see a bit later on, there is a certain specious appearance of soundness in their position; they have forced upon women an artificial character which ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

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... in wandering through the classic shades of the Abbey next door, looking over the memorial tablets of "sculptured brass and monumental marble," erected to the honour of departed worthies:—I wished, you know, to keep my mind in a properly reflective state for the afternoon hours of examination—history and other abstruse ...

— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson

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... was not put off. He was patient and reflective. He had been at sea many years and I verily believe he liked sea-life because upon the whole it is favourable to reflection. I am speaking of the now nearly vanished sea-life under sail. To those who may be surprised at the statement I will point out ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

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