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Synonyms for reflex
ˈri flɛks; rɪˈflɛksre·flex

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. reflexadjective

    Synonyms:
    re-entrant

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reactionadjective

    an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

    Synonyms:
    reflex action, reflex response, physiological reaction, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex

    Antonyms:
    voluntary

  2. automatic, reflex(a), reflexiveadjective

    without volition or conscious control

    "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"

    Antonyms:
    voluntary

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. reflexadjective

    Synonyms:
    retroactive

  2. reflexadjective

    Synonyms:
    (Bot.) reflected, bent back

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How to use reflex in a sentence?

  1. Mark Zuckerberg:

    I'll have to understand what they actually would intend to do, but in general I think a government choosing to censor a platform because they're worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as the right reflex there.

  2. Scott Galloway:

    I think you're naturally seeing what I would call a well deserved and well earned gag reflex around this idea, they're trying to do everything right : Set up an independent body in Switzerland, make it a nonprofit. But there's one problem... it comes from Facebook. And people just are like,' Burn me a million times, shame on you, burn me a million and one times, shame on me.'.

  3. Antonin Artaud:

    It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  4. James Abate:

    We had the sharp reflex rally this week, particularly in the finance sector, as people perceived results that were less bad than what was expected, people are going to digest what's happened thus far with the major banks, as well as Alcoa and some of the major industrial companies.

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Who wears the skin of the predator has no predator reflex. (Qui porte la peau du prédateur - N'a pas réflexe de prédateur.)


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