RESPONSIVE
Dictionary entry overview: What does responsive mean?
• RESPONSIVE (adjective)
The adjective RESPONSIVE has 4 senses:
1. containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation
2. readily reacting to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
3. readily reacting to suggestions and influences
4. readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals or efforts
Familiarity information: RESPONSIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• RESPONSIVE (adjective)
Meaning:
Containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
antiphonal; responsive
Context examples:
responsive reading / antiphonal liturgy
Domain category:
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Pertainym:
response (a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister)
Meaning:
Readily reacting to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
Context example:
children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience
Similar:
answering; respondent (replying)
Also:
sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)
sensitive (being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others)
Antonym:
unresponsive (not responding to some influence or stimulus)
Meaning:
Readily reacting to suggestions and influences
Synonyms:
amenable; tractable; responsive
Context example:
a responsive student
Similar:
susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)
Meaning:
Readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals or efforts
Context example:
keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people
Similar:
sensitive (being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others)
