Definition of Reflective

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Reflective

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.

Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason.

Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.

Reflexive; reciprocal.

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Reflective Quotations

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Augusten Burroughs

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
Peter Singer

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
Tim Robbins

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
Clarence Thomas

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
Bubba Sparxxx

Reflective Translations

reflective in German is reflektierend, reflektiert, reflektierend
reflective in Spanish is reflexivo

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