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Another word for responsive

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Adjective

  1. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli

    See also:

    awareness

  2. Ready and willing to receive favorably, as new ideas

    See also:

    accept

  3. Easily approached

    See also:

    attitude

    approach

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Another word for responsive

Modifier
  1. See also:

    impressionable

    conscious

    active

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • She was responsive, hungry and yielding, a combination that lit his blood on fire.

  • The physical "touch" that initiates the psychical "touch" initiates, through the very same nerve channels, a reflex movement responsive to the physical "touch," just as the psychical "touch" may be considered also a response to the same physical event.

  • To what extent such responses are transmitted to offspring, and what part they play in the formation of the adaptive characters that are conspicuous in many animals, remain dubious, but it is at least clear that natural selection can favour those individuals and those races which show the greatest power of responsive plasticity in the individual.

  • I trust it is equally responsive to the needs of my newly found guests.

  • By the time they entered the building, her arms and legs were responsive again.

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