responsive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rɪˈspɒnsɪv/

Etymology

Compare French responsif.

Adjective

responsive (comparative more responsive, superlative most responsive)

1. Answering, replying or responding.
2. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
3. Using antiphons; antiphonal.
4. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
5. (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
   • Alexander Pope

     The vocal lay responsive to the strings.

6. (obsolete) responsible

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

Translations

answering, replying or responding

• Finnish: reagoiva

• Polish: odpowiadający (pl) m

able to receive and respond to external stimuli

• Finnish: reagoiva

• Romanian: sensibil (ro) m and n, simțitor (ro) m and n, răspundent (ro) m and n

using antiphons; antiphonal

susceptible to the feelings of others

• Finnish: herkkä (fi)

• Spanish: empático (es) m

Derived terms

• responsively
• responsiveness
• responsorial

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Italian

Adjective

responsive f

1. Feminine plural form of responsivo

Anagrams

• provenisse