Receptive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Receptive \Re*cep"tive\ (r[-e]*s[e^]p"t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
     r['e]ceptif. See {Receive}.]
     Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in,
     absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a
     receptive mind.
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           Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies. --Glanvill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  receptive
       adj 1: open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason
              and the logic of facts"
       2: ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the
          proposals" [ant: {unreceptive}]
       3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing
          toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn:
           {centripetal}, {sensory(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  158 Moby Thesaurus words for "receptive":
     accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, admissible, admissive,
     admissory, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive to, amenable,
     amiable, apt, ardent, astute, aware, bendable, bending, bright,
     clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, consenting, content,
     cooperative, cordial, delicate, disposed, docile, ductile, eager,
     educable, elastic, emotionable, enthusiastic, extensible,
     extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed,
     favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable,
     formative, forward, friendly, game, generous, genial, giving,
     gracious, hearty, hospitable, imbibitory, impressible,
     impressionable, impressive, in the mind, in the mood, inclined,
     influenceable, ingestive, instructable, intelligent, interested,
     intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, keen, liberal,
     like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, minded,
     moldable, motivated, movable, neighborly, open, open-minded,
     openhearted, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible,
     pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone,
     quick, ready, ready and willing, receivable, receiving, receptible,
     recipient, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensatory,
     sensible, sensile, sensimotor, sensitive, sensitive to, sensorial,
     sensorimotor, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sequacious, shapable,
     sharp, sib, soft, softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive,
     suggestible, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable,
     sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted,
     thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, warm,
     warmhearted, weak, welcoming, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy,
     willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous