Dictionary Definition
responsive adj
1 containing or using responses or antiphons
recited or sung in alternation; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal
liturgy" [syn: antiphonal]
2 readily reacting to people or events; showing
emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive
members of the audience" [ant: unresponsive]
4 susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of
others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of
the people"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /rɪˈspɒnsɪv/
Adjective
- Answering, replying or responding.
- Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
- Using antiphons; antiphonal.
- Susceptible to the feelings of others.
Translations
answering, replying or responding
- Finnish: reagoiva
able to receive and respond to external stimuli
- Finnish: reagoiva
using antiphons; antiphonal
susceptible to the feelings of others
- Finnish: herkkä
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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