reflective, adj. 1. imitative, mirrorlike, repetitive, echoing; resounding, reverberating.
2. contemplative, meditative, meditating, musing, pondering, brooding, mulling over; reflecting, cogitative, cogitating, ruminant, ruminating; pensive, thoughtful, concentrating, intent, abstracted, preoccupied, absorbed, engrossed, rapt in thought, lost in thought, bemused, Archaic, museful; dreamy, woolgathering; deliberative, excogitative, lucubrative; philosophical, intellectual, speculative.
reflector, n. mirror, looking glass, pier glass, cheval glass, glass, speculum; reverberator, reflecting surface, resonator, sounding board.
reflex, adj. 1. reactive, responsive, reflexive; rebounding, boomeranging, recoiling; resilient, elastic, springy, bouncy; knee-jerk, spontaneous, automatic, immediate, involuntary.
2. reflected, mirrored, returned; echoed, echoing, repetitive, reechoed, reechoing, reverberating, reverberant, reverberative, resounding, Obs. repercussive.
3. bent, crooked, curved, hooked, hook-shaped, adunc, unciform, Anat. hamate, Biol, uncinate, Meteorology. uncinus.
reform, n. 1. improvement, betterment, amelioration, melioration; change, revision, revolutionary or major change, step ahead, progress; switch, changeover, conversion; rewrite, remake, reorganization, cleanup, purification, purgation; amendment, emend-ment, correction, rectification, reparation, renovation, reclamation, recovery; salvation, rescue, deliverance, redemption, ransom.
-v. 2. improve, better, make better, ameliorate, meliorate; change, revise, revolutionize, change over, switch, convert; rewrite, redo, refashion, remodel, remake, make over, revamp, reorganize; clean up, purify, purge, cleanse; amend, emend, correct, set straight, straighten out, set to rights, rectify; fix or fix up, cure, mend, repair, remedy, renovate, restore; rehabilitate, reclaim, recover, save, salvage, rescue; deliver, redeem, ransom.
3. mend one's ways, be a new man, turn over a new leaf, wipe the slate clean, start anew; make amends, make up for the past, atone for one's sins.
reformatory, adj. 1. reformative, reforming, corrective, correcting, emendatory, remedial; restorative, restoring, medicinal, restitutive, restitutory; therapeutic, curative, curing, sanative, sanatory, healing, recuperative, recuperatory.
2. reform school, house of correction, penal institution.