an action or a movement of your body that happens naturally in response to sth and that you cannot control; sth that you do without thinking:
The doctor tested her reflexes. * to have quick / slow reflexes * a reflex response / reaction * Only the goalkeeper's reflexes (= his ability to react quickly) stopped the ball from going in. * Almost as a reflex action, I grab my pen as the phone rings.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for reflex is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is reflex a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reflex is tagged as noun.
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