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reflected on

reflected on is the simple past and past participle of reflect on.

Meaning of reflect on

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To think carefully about (something), and give it due consideration.
    • She reflected on her country's role in history.
  2. (transitive) To access details of (a data type, etc.) at run-time using reflection.
    • It is sometimes useful to be able to reflect on class or interface types in native code as well.1999, Sheng Liang, The Java Native Interface
  3. To give an impression of (used with an adverb).
    • The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.

Questions about reflected on

What is reflected on the simple past and past participle of?
Reflected on is the simple past and past participle of reflect on.

Words near reflected on in the dictionary

  1. reflectancy
  2. reflectarray
  3. reflectarrays
  4. reflected
  5. reflected cross-site scripting
  6. reflected on
  7. reflected upon
  8. reflectedly
  9. reflectedness
  10. reflectent
  11. reflecter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reflected on (page history and authors); reflect on (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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