REFLECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reflected mean? 

• REFLECTED (adjective)
  The adjective REFLECTED has 1 sense:

1. (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back

  Familiarity information: REFLECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFLECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back

Context example:

reflected glory

Similar:

echoic; echolike (like or characteristic of an echo)

mirrored (like or characteristic of a mirror image)

Antonym:

unreflected ((especially of incident sound or light) not turned back by physical reflection)

 Context examples 

You might see Earth’s reflected light in the dim glow.

(Earthshine, NASA)

Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I think most people noticed that in October and even saw it reflected in the news, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They never got over it, and every letter they wrote him reflected their reverent awe of that first mysterious happening.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Well," I reflected, "if you won't talk, you may be still; I'll let you alone now, and return to my book."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All day the drums rumbled and whispered, while their menace reflected itself in the faces of our colored companions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was convinced that the scoundrel spoke of himself, and I saw my conviction reflected in Miss Dartle's face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

From its reflected brightness, astronomers estimate that the asteroid is about 20 meters in size.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The timing, architecture and patterns of gene activity reflected that of natural embryo development.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)