SELF-REFLECTIVE Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

self-reflective

adjective

Definition of self-reflective

as in introspective

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Recent Examples of self-reflective These are Grace’s own watercolor paintings, self-reflective and complex, much like her latest EP, Heavy Hair. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026 Young adults in the early earbuds age used her songs as fuel for runs, laptop work, Tinder hookups, and the solitary, self-reflective mornings after. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026 Someone with lower self-reflective awareness might quickly decide who is at fault and move on. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Mar. 2026 Key to this is learning how to be self-reflective and honest with yourself. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for self-reflective

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Adjective

The music was imbued with grace and dignity in both its most introspective and uplifting moments.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
For Sézalory, Sézane has always been introspective, informed by her personal taste and dress sense.

— Alice Cary, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of introspective

Adjective

Be sure to plan your trip around mid-to-late October, when autumnal foliage is at its peak, and hit hiking trails that come alive with color, like the Croda da Lago Circuit and its reflective alpine lake, Lago di Federa.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Its reflective surface changes with the light, the weather, and the movement of the people who encounter it.

— Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of reflective

Adjective

Strong reimbursement intelligence will achieve this with AI models that blend prospective and retrospective intelligence together.

— Terry Goertz, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
This extreme foregrounding of character in terms of action endows the cast with a retrospective air of typecasting, in a positive sense—the actors seem made for their parts, coalescing with their characters temperamentally.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of retrospective

Adjective

We are asked constantly to dilate and contract—to adjust from contemplative darkness to the California sun, from specific detail to overarching conceit, from stillness to activity.

— Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
In a voice at once biting and contemplative, eerie and funny, Kasischke crafts poems in which nothing is ever stable or resolved.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of contemplative

Adjective

He’s taken by the meditative musical vibrations, and he’s even framed against a glass window that appears to shimmer, as though the rusty gears of his mind and heart are forced to rotate and a power a bulb somewhere off screen.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Dash, 2026, the forty-seven-minute, two-channel essay-film at the project’s core, is filled with quiet, almost meditative scenes of machines tilling the land that initially conjure a faux-pastoral aesthetic register.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of meditative

Adjective

Could thoughtful architecture, practical living spaces, durable materials and useful amenities be delivered without pushing homes into the highest end of the market?

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
If leaders distinguish between thoughtful and careless risks, people can move boldly without lowering the bar.

— Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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