1. (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
2. (a.) Implying censure.
3. (a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.
Thesaurus Entries
active, active voice, antiphonal, automatic, blind, casual, compulsive, conditioned, forced, gut, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, impulsive, inadvertent, indeliberate, instinctive, involuntary, mechanical, medio-passive, middle, middle voice, passive, passive voice, reacting, reactionary, reactive, reflex, refluent, respondent, responding, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, revulsive, snap, spontaneous, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unthinking, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, voice
