Definitions for: Responsive

[adj] readily reacting to people or events; showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience"
[adj] susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people"
[adj] readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"
[adj] susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your desires"
[adj] (religion) containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal liturgy"

Webster (1913) Definition: Re*spon"sive (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. resposif.]
1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

2. Suited to something else; correspondent.

The vocal lay responsive to the strings. --Pope.

3. Responsible. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. -- Re*spon"sive*ly,
adv. -- Re*spon"sive*ness, n.

Synonyms: amenable, answering, antiphonal, respondent, susceptible, tractable

Antonyms: unresponsive

See Also: sensitive

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