Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to reflect
Participle: reflected
Gerund: reflecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | reflect |
| you | reflect |
| he;she;it | reflects |
| we | reflect |
| you | reflect |
| they | reflect |
Perfect
| I | have reflected |
| you | have reflected |
| he;she;it | has reflected |
| we | have reflected |
| you | have reflected |
| they | have reflected |
Past
| I | reflected |
| you | reflected |
| he;she;it | reflected |
| we | reflected |
| you | reflected |
| they | reflected |
Pluperfect
| I | had reflected |
| you | had reflected |
| he;she;it | had reflected |
| we | had reflected |
| you | had reflected |
| they | had reflected |
Future
| I | will reflect |
| you | will reflect |
| he;she;it | will reflect |
| we | will reflect |
| you | will reflect |
| they | will reflect |
Future Perfect
| I | will have reflected |
| you | will have reflected |
| he;she;it | will have reflected |
| we | will have reflected |
| you | will have reflected |
| they | will have reflected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | reflect |
| you | reflect |
| he;she;it | reflect |
| we | reflect |
| you | reflect |
| they | reflect |
Perfect
| I | have reflected |
| you | have reflected |
| he;she;it | have reflected |
| we | have reflected |
| you | have reflected |
| they | have reflected |
Imperfect
| I | reflected |
| you | reflected |
| he;she;it | reflected |
| we | reflected |
| you | reflected |
| they | reflected |
Pluperfect
| I | had reflected |
| you | had reflected |
| he;she;it | had reflected |
| we | had reflected |
| you | had reflected |
| they | had reflected |
Conditional
Present
| I | would reflect |
| you | would reflect |
| he;she;it | would reflect |
| we | would reflect |
| you | would reflect |
| they | would reflect |
Perfect
| I | would have reflected |
| you | would have reflected |
| he;she;it | would have reflected |
| we | would have reflected |
| you | would have reflected |
| they | would have reflected |
Imperative
| you | reflect |
| we | Let's reflect |
| you | reflect |
Verbs conjugated like 'reflect'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'reflect'
deflect,
reelect,
reëlect,
refect,
befleck,
defect,
effect,
elect,
inflect,
neglect,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
- ponder
- mirror
- copy, rebound
- think
- consider, contemplate, deliberate, ponder, cogitate, meditate, muse, ruminate
- resonate
- echo, reverberate, emulate, rebound, follow
Additional Information
Etymology
From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflectō (“to reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flectō (“to bend, to curve”). Compare English reflex. See: English '
reflex'.
Verbs referencing "reflect"
English
reflex.
Sample Sentences
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[...] Pilot. After another interval of total unconsciousness, I found he had gone, and recognised another figure in its place. It seemed to wave and fluctuate before me as though I saw it reflected in an unsteady looking-glass; but I knew it for the captain; and such was the cheerful influence of his face, that I tried to smile: yes, even then I tried to smile. I saw by his gestures that he [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living. Her [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living. Her corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practised compounders; and she would [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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She was many miles past any neighborhood where she was personally known. If she should chance to meet any who knew her, she reflected that the well-known kindness of the family would be of itself a blind to suspicion, as making it an unlikely supposition that she could be a fugitive. As she was also so white as not to be known as [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] throng, when I saw them turning with one mind from noisy orators and officers of state, and flocking with a generous and honest impulse round the man of quiet pursuits: proud in his promotion as reflecting back upon their country: and grateful to him with their whole hearts for the store of graceful fancies he had poured out among them. Long may he dispense such treasures with unsparing hand; and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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At length, however, we emerged upon the streets of Harrisburg, whose feeble lights, reflected dismally from the wet ground, did not shine out upon a very cheerful city. We were soon established in a snug hotel, which though smaller and far less splendid than many we put up at, it raised [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of sacking (which his weight had bent into an exceedingly tight bag ), that there was a very heavy gentleman above me, whom the slender cords seemed quite incapable of holding; and I could not help reflecting upon the grief of my wife and family in the event of his coming down in the night. But as I could not have got up again without a severe bodily struggle, which might have alarmed the ladies; and as [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“What, Miss Eva?” “ Don't you see,—there ? ” said the child, pointing to the glassy water, which, as it rose and fell, reflected the golden glow of the sky. “ There's a ’ sea of glass, mingled with fire. ’ ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Seriously reflecting within herself, she considered that perhaps she had shown too hasty a warmth of language in her former interview with Marie; and she resolved that she would now endeavor to moderate her zeal, and to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)