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reflect upon

reflect upon verb: to consider a weighty topic or idea.

Verb

reflect upon (third-person singular simple present reflects upon, present participle reflecting upon, simple past and past participle reflected upon)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To consider a weighty topic or idea.
    Synonyms:
    reflect on

reflect upon meaning in Sanskrit

reflect upon in Sanskrit

to reflect upon
सम्प्रेक्ष् samprekṣ
to reflect upon, consider, examine, investigate
मन्यते mányate

Synonyms of reflect upon

Forms of reflect upon

third-person singular presentreflects upon
present participlereflecting upon
past participlereflected upon
pastreflected upon

Questions about reflect upon

What does reflect upon mean?
Reflect upon means to consider a weighty topic or idea.
What is reflect upon in Sanskrit?
Reflect upon in Sanskrit is सम्प्रेक्ष् (samprekṣ), मन्यते (mányate). See Reflect upon meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is reflect upon?
Reflect upon is a verb.
What is the past tense of reflect upon?
The past tense of reflect upon is reflected upon.

Words near reflect upon in the dictionary

  1. reflators
  2. reflavor
  3. reflavour
  4. reflect
  5. reflect on
  6. reflect upon
  7. reflectability
  8. reflectable
  9. reflectance
  10. reflectances
  11. reflectancies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reflect upon (page history and authors); मन्यते (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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