'Responsive' definitions:
Definition of 'responsive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal laughter" [syn: responsive, antiphonal]
adjective
Readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience" [ant: unresponsive]
adjective
Reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons" [syn: reactive, responsive]
Definition of 'Responsive'
From: GCIDE
- Responsive \Re*spon"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. resposif.]
- 1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Suited to something else; correspondent. [1913 Webster]
- The vocal lay responsive to the strings. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Responsible. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] -- {Re*spon"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*spon"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'responsive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessible,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adaptive,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- alive,
- allergic,
- amenable,
- anaphylactic,
- answering,
- antiphonal,
- ardent,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bouncy,
- buoyant,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communicative,
- communional,
- compassionate,
- compliant,
- confutative,
- consenting,
- content,
- conversational,
- cooperative,
- delicate,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- eager,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- enthusiastic,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- game,
- giving,
- goosy,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- keen,
- kindhearted,
- like putty,
- limber,
- linguistic,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- lively,
- malleable,
- minded,
- moldable,
- movable,
- nervous,
- open,
- open-minded,
- oral,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prickly,
- prompt,
- prone,
- questioning,
- quick,
- reacting,
- reactionary,
- reactive,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- reechoing,
- refined,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refluent,
- refutative,
- rejoining,
- replying,
- resilient,
- respondent,
- responding,
- retroactionary,
- retroactive,
- returning,
- revulsive,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- skittish,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- speech,
- springy,
- stretch,
- stretchable,
- stretchy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supersensitive,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- swayable,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- telepathic,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transmissional,
- verbal,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- wide-awake,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
Words containing 'Responsive'
- Responsal,
- Response,
- Responsibility,
- Responsible,
- Responsibleness,
- Responsibly,
- Responsion,
- Responsively,
- Responsiveness,
- responsible for,
- Consultary response,
- anamnestic response,
- civic responsibility,
- conditional response,
- conditioned response,
- electrodermal response,
- frequency response,
- immune response,
- immunologic response,
- learned response,
- psychogalvanic response,
- reflex response,
- response time,
- sense of responsibility,
- startle response,
- conditioned avoidance response,
- conditioned emotional response,
- electrical skin response,
- galvanic skin response,
- humoral immune response,
- frequency-response characteristic,
- frequency-response curve,
- cell-mediated immune response