Responsive

3 definitions found

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

  Responsive \Re*spon"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. resposif.]
     1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
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     2. Suited to something else; correspondent.
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              The vocal lay responsive to the strings. --Pope.
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     3. Responsible. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Re*spon"sive*ly}, adv. --
        {Re*spon"sive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       3: readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a
          responsive student" [syn: {amenable}, {tractable}]
       4: susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping
          government in America responsive to the will of the
          people"

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

  182 Moby Thesaurus words for "responsive":
     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