Responsive Definition

rĭ-spŏnsĭv
adjective
That gives or serves as an answer or response.
Webster's New World
Answering or replying; responding.
American Heritage
Reacting easily or readily to suggestion or appeal.
A responsive audience.
Webster's New World
Sensitive to, and readily reacting to, stimuli, changes, control mechanisms, etc.
A responsive stock market, sailboat, etc.
Webster's New World
Containing or consisting of responses.
Responsive reading in church.
Webster's New World
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Responsive 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.

  • It's all very well for you, said Natasha, with a responsive smile.

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

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