Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Answering or replying; responding.
- adjective Readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals, or efforts.
- adjective Containing or using responses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Answering; correspondent; suited to something else; being in accord.
- Responsible; answerable.
- Able, ready, or inclined to respond or answer; answering; replying.
- Characterized by the use of responses: as, a responsive service of public worship.
- In law, pertinent in answer; called for by the question: as, a party is not bound by an answer given by his own witness if it is not responsive to the question, but may have the irresponsive matter struck out.
- noun An answer; a response; a reply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
- adjective Suited to something else; correspondent.
- adjective obsolete Responsible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Answering ,replying orresponding . - adjective Able to
receive andrespond toexternal stimuli . - adjective Using
antiphons ;antiphonal . - adjective
Susceptible to thefeelings of others. - adjective obsolete Suited to something else;
correspondent . - adjective obsolete
responsible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
- adjective containing or using responses; alternating
- adjective reacting to a stimulus
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term responsive community is used to accord full status both to individuals and to their shared union.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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The term responsive community is used to accord full status both to individuals and to their shared union.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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"Now, this is what I call responsive mozzarella," Dug remarked, dangling his slice by a stretching string of cheese and bouncing it like a yo-yo.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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"Now, this is what I call responsive mozzarella," Dug remarked, dangling his slice by a stretching string of cheese and bouncing it like a yo-yo.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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He had set up what he called a responsive emulation.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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And the payment system would not be set by fiat; it would remain responsive to treatment breakthroughs and changes in consumer demand.
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Hadjigeorgiou, M. and Papapavlou, A. (2005) Approaches to multiculturalism: How responsive is the educational system of Cyprus to new challenges?
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And the payment system would not be set by fiat; it would remain responsive to treatment breakthroughs and changes in consumer demand.
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The veterinarian made his way slowly among the rows of blue-green bodies, dividing the responsive from the nonresponsive and the nonresponsive from the dead.
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The veterinarian made his way slowly among the rows of blue-green bodies, dividing the responsive from the nonresponsive and the nonresponsive from the dead.
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