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reflected

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ɹɪˈflɛktɪd//

Bent or sent back (especially of incident sound or light).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of reflectsimple past and past participle of reflect

adjective

  1. 1

    Bent or sent back (especially of incident sound or light).

    reflected light or reflected heat

  2. 2

    Vicarious; derived from the work or success of somebody else.

    The astronaut's brother basked in the reflected glory of the successful mission.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).