Crossword-Solution: REFLEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reflex | a. | Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. |
| Reflex | a. | Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. |
| Reflex | a. | Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. |
| Reflex | n. | Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. |
| Reflex | n. | An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. |
| Reflex | v. t. | To reflect. |
| Reflex | v. t. | To bend back; to turn back. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with REFLEX (5)
Perhaps this, too, was a disease, and but the reflex of the wild energy with which Hester had fought against her sorrows before Pearl’s birth.
Her face was lighted with the kindliest emotions; and the reflex influence of her countenance, as well as the tenderness with which she seemed to regard me, while asking me sundry little questions, greatly delighted me, and lit up, to my fancy, the pathway of my future.
And when growing strength gave her power to endure them, and she was racked with those pains which are inevitable to being born back again in this fashion to life, I too felt the reflex of her agony, and writhed in loving sympathy.
Yet if the outward features had been a reflex of the soul within, few faces would have been more attractive than that of Hester Cameron.
But how have I wandered into the deeper fairyland of the soul, while as yet I only float towards the fairy palace of Fairy Land! The moon, which is the lovelier memory or reflex of the down-gone sun, the joyous day seen in the faint mirror of the brooding night, had rapt me away.
Quotes with REFLEX (3)
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.
Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and perceptions that find perfect expression in fiction. We are built this way, we create stories by reflex, unstoppably. But this elegant system really works best when the elements of the emerging story, whether is is being written o…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).