responsive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
responsive
    adj 1: containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive
           reading"; "antiphonal laughter" [syn: {responsive},
           {antiphonal}]
    2: readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli;
       showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most
       responsive members of the audience" [ant: {unresponsive}]
    3: reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less
       reactive than that of younger persons" [syn: {reactive},
       {responsive}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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