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/ˈɹiːflɛks/ · noun
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing..
For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.
The Middle Korean reflex for mey was mwoy 뫼
The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
A reflex camera uses a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder.
Yon gray is not the morning’s eye, ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face.
Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea[.]
Use reflex when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Reflex means An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing..
Common synonyms include re-entrant, reflexive, automatic, physiological reaction.
Possible antonyms include etymon.
For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
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