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receptive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective receptive has 4 senses
- receptive(s = adj.all) Array - open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts" Derived forms verb receive13, verb receive6, verb receive5, verb receive9, noun receptiveness1, noun receptivity1
- receptive(a = adj.all) open - ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" Derived forms verb receive13, verb receive6, verb receive9, noun receptiveness1, noun receptivity1
- receptive(s = adj.all) centripetal, sensory - of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" Derived form verb receive3
- receptive(s = adj.all) Array - able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink-receptive"
Antonym: unreceptive
CIDE DICTIONARY
receptive, a. [Cf. F. réceptif. See Receive.].
Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind. [1913 Webster]
"Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
receptive, adj.
1 able or quick to receive impressions or ideas.
2 concerned with receiving stimuli etc.
1 able or quick to receive impressions or ideas.
2 concerned with receiving stimuli etc.
Derivative
receptively adv. receptiveness n. receptivity n.
Etymology
F r{eacute}ceptif -ive or med.L receptivus (as RECEPTION)
THESAURUS
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
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