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Synonyms for reflective
rɪˈflɛk tɪvre·flec·tive

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  1. brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminativeadjective

    deeply or seriously thoughtful

    "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";

    Synonyms:
    contemplative, meditative, brooding, pensive, wistful, broody, ruminative, musing, pondering

    Antonyms:
    nonintellectual, nonreflective, echoless, thoughtless, nonreflecting

  2. reflectiveadjective

    capable of physically reflecting light or sound

    "a reflective surface"

    Synonyms:
    contemplative, meditative, brooding, pensive, broody, ruminative, musing, pondering

    Antonyms:
    nonreflecting, thoughtless, nonreflective, echoless, nonintellectual

  3. reflectiveadjective

    devoted to matters of the mind

    "the reflective type"

    Synonyms:
    contemplative, meditative, brooding, pensive, broody, ruminative, musing, pondering

    Antonyms:
    nonintellectual, nonreflecting, nonreflective, thoughtless, echoless

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reflectiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    reflecting, reflexive

  2. reflectiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    thoughtful, musing, deliberating, pondering, cogitating

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How to use reflective in a sentence?

  1. Karlie Kloss in an interview:

    The reason I decided to stop working with Victoria's Secret was I didn't feel it was an image that was truly reflective of who I am and the kind of message I want to send to young women around the world about what it means to be beautiful.

  2. Jeb Bush:

    Everybody has a belief that we should control our borders, but to make these extraordinarily kind of ugly comments is not reflective of the Republican Party. Trump is wrong on this.

  3. Gilles Verniers:

    It is reflective of the nervousness of political parties, every party, and the incumbent in particular, will try to maximize anything they think will play to their advantage.

  4. Valerie Street:

    This map is still not reflective of the Texas population. It doesn't adequately show where we are, where we've come, where the growth has happened over the past decade.

  5. Washington Irving, American writer and poet:

    Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.


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