Definition for Reflex:

• Recurved( rare); ( of light &c.) reflected( rare); ( of thought &c.) introspective, directed back upon itself or its own operations, ( of effect or influence) reactive, coming back upon its author or source; ( Physiol.) r. action, independent of the will, excited as involuntary response to nerve-stimulation; ( Gram.) reflexive( now rare). Hence reflexly adv. [ Latin]

Synonyms for Reflex:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • reflex.
  •automatic (adjective)
  • unwilled,
  • knee-jerk,
  • autogenetic,
  • Unmeditated.
  •unconscious (adjective)
  • most undeliberate,
  • most unrealized,
  • un-mindful,
  • sub conscious,
  • in-attentive,
  • in advertent,
  • most suppressed,
  • re-pressed,
  • re pressed,
  • more undeliberate,
  • un-aware,
  • un heeding,
  • un aware,
  • sub-liminal,
  • un-heeding,
  • un conscious,
  • un-conscious,
  • more suppressed,
  • un-deliberate,
  • in-advertent,
  • more unrealized,
  • most subliminal,
  • sub-conscious,
  • more repressed,
  • un-realized,
  • un realized,
  • un deliberate,
  • sub liminal,
  • more subliminal,
  • most repressed.
  •visceral (adjective)
  • in-tuitional,
  • most second nature,
  • in-grained,
  • most secondnature,
  • in-born,
  • more intuitional,
  • most intuitional,
  • more secondnature,
  • more second nature,
  • in born,
  • in tuitional,
  • more second-nature,
  • most second-nature,
  • secondnature.

• n.

  •
  • coincidental,
  • by accident,
  • arbitrary,
  • random,
  • unintended,
  • accidental,
  • impromptu.
  •
  • impulsive,
  • planned,
  • instinctive,
  • outburst,
  • reply,
  • cry,
  • welcome,
  • answer.
  •
  • motor,
  • spasm,
  • relax,
  • smooth,
  • pull,
  • contract.
  •effect (noun)
  • sequent,
  • pursuance,
  • reflexes,
  • causatum,
  • followup,
  • After-math,
  • follow up,
  • flak,
  • spin-off,
  • materialization,
  • follow-ups,
  • follow-up,
  • aftereffect,
  • resultant,
  • spin off,
  • followups.
  •feeling (noun)
  • motility,
  • innervation,
  • excitation,
  • sensuality,
  • responsiveness,
  • innervations,
  • motor response,
  • motilities,
  • excitability,
  • sensitivities.
  •gut reaction (noun)
  • pavlovian responses,
  • gut-reaction,
  • unthinking responses.
  •physiological reaction (noun)
  • physiological reaction.
  •reaction (noun)
  • re actions,
  • re agencies,
  • re coils,
  • re-flection,
  • re flections,
  • counter-action,
  • reagencies,
  • re joinder,
  • re-action,
  • re-tort,
  • re-actions,
  • re action,
  • re tort,
  • kneejerks,
  • re bounds,
  • doubletakes,
  • counter balances,
  • re joinders,
  • re torts,
  • counter action,
  • re-bound,
  • Re-turn,
  • re-flections,
  • counter poise,
  • counter balance,
  • counter-actions,
  • re-coils,
  • re-joinder,
  • re bound,
  • doubletake,
  • re-agency,
  • counter-poises,
  • knee-jerks,
  • re-turns,
  • re-torts,
  • re-agencies,
  • re flection,
  • double-takes,
  • re coil,
  • counter actions,
  • re-coil,
  • re-bounds,
  • re turn,
  • counter-poise,
  • re agency,
  • counter poises,
  • re-joinders,
  • re turns.
  •spontaneous reaction (noun)
  • spontaneous-reaction.
  •unconditioned reflex (noun)
  • unconditioned reflex.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • interplay,
  • overstretched,
  • cartilaginous,
  • spasmodic,
  • tic,
  • backward,
  • outcry.
  •
  • echo,
  • Striated,
  • spontaneous,
  • unpremeditated,
  • muscular,
  • behavior.
  •
  • imitation.
  •
  • repetition,
  • tighten,
  • reflection,
  • tense.
  •
  • tension.
  •
  • strain.
  •
  • stretch.
  •eddy
  • undertow.

Paraphrases for Reflex:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reaction.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    reflective.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    response.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    knee-jerk.
  • Noun, plural
    reflections.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reflection, instinct, gag.

Reflex Sentence Examples:

• Further, we must assume that the gloomy cast of thought so pervadingly given to the new tragedies is partly a reflex of his own experience, but also in large part an expression of the philosophy to which he had been led by his reading, as well as by his life.

• Below, mountain and valley, forest and field, gleamed in the sunset reflex with radiance which hurt the eye, unable to find a shady point of rest.

Homophones for Reflex:

• replace, rebellious, ribless, rivulus, replica, riblike, republic, raffles, ropewalk, rafflesiaceae, repulse, roofless, rabelais, reflux, republish, rubiales.