Chapter Recrement to Refrain of R by Soule's Synonymes

Reflective, a.

1. Reflecting, reflexive.

2. Thoughtful, musing, deliberating, pondering, cogitating, reasoning.

Reflector, n. Mirror, speculum.

Reflex, a.

1. Retroactive, introspective, reflective.

2. (Bot.) Reflected, bent back, reflexed.

Reflexive, a. Reflective.

Refluence, n. Reflux, ebb, regurgitation, return, flowing back.

Refluent, a. Ebbing, flowing back.

Reflux, n. Ebb. See Refluence.

Reform, v. a.

1. Correct, amend, mend, emend, ameliorate, meliorate, better, improve, rectify, repair, restore, reclaim.

2. Remodel, form anew.

Reform, v. n. Amend, become better.

Reform, n. Reformation, amendment, rectification, correction.

Reformation, n. Reform, amendment, correction, rectification, act of reforming.

Reformative, Reformatory, a. Reforming.

Refract, v. a. Deflect (rays), deviate, turn from a straight course.

Refracting, a. Deflecting, refractive.

Refraction, n. Deflection (of rays), deviation.

Refractive, a. Refracting.

Refractory, a. Stubborn, obstinate, stiff, perverse, dogged, mulish, heady, headstrong, cross-grained, intractable, unyielding, contumacious, disobedient, unruly, ungovernable, cantankerous, unmanageable, recalcitrant.

Refrain, v. a. Restrain, withhold, keep back, curb, govern.

Refrain, v. n. Abstain, forbear, withhold, hold one’s self back.