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Reflective

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Adjective

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

deeply or seriously thoughtful

Example Sentences:
'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'

2. reflective

capable of physically reflecting light or sound

Example Sentences:
'a reflective surface'

3. reflective

devoted to matters of the mind

Example Sentences:
'the reflective type'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Reflective

see synonyms of reflective
adjective
1. 
characterized by quiet thought or contemplation
2. 
capable of reflecting
a reflective surface
3. 
produced by reflection

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Reflective

see synonyms of reflective
adjective
1. 
reflecting
2. 
of or produced by reflection
3. 
meditative; thoughtful

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Reflective

see synonyms of reflective
adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
b. Capable of or producing reflection: a reflective surface.
2. Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful. See Synonyms at pensive.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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