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Reflexively definition, (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. See more.
In grammar, a reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, I wash myself.More generally, a reflexive verb has the same semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object).or example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, the term refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages.