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reflexive

adjective (GRAMMAR)
 
 
/rɪˈflek.sɪv/

Definition

describes words that show that the person who does the action is also the person who is affected by it: In the sentence She prides herself on doing a good job, prides is a reflexive verb and herself is a reflexive pronoun.Grammatical termsReflexive forms
(Definition of reflexive adjective (GRAMMAR) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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