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Definitions: Responsive |
ResponsiveAdjective1. (religion) containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal liturgy". 2. Readily reacting to people or events; showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience". 3. Susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your desires". 4. Readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student". 5. Susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "responsive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ResponsiveSynonyms: antiphonal (adj), tractable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unresponsive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Answer | Adjective: answering; Verb: responsive, respondent; conclusive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Responsive |
| English words defined with "responsive": accept, adaptation, alert, amen corner ♦ Boniform ♦ good-hearted ♦ impersonal, inherent aptitude, insensitive, instinct, Irresponsive ♦ kind, kindly ♦ maximally, Melib/an, minimally ♦ openhearted ♦ reactivity, responsiveness ♦ sensitive, suggestible ♦ tractable ♦ unresponsive ♦ warm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "responsive": Community Relations, consistently responsive cell ♦ demand responsive, demand responsive control, demand responsive system ♦ Gene Products, rev ♦ HIV Long Terminal Repeat ♦ Immune Tolerance ♦ Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency ♦ Para-Aortic Bodies, Price elasticity of demand ♦ responsive pacemaker ♦ seismic reflection method, sensitive receptor ♦ trial body ♦ Vaccines, Conjugate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "responsive": Amoebaeum. (references) |
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Screenplays | That's because I've never had anything this responsive underneath me. (L.A. Law; writing credit: Jolle Goron; Katherine Pancol) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Responsive Eye (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured is a scanning electron micrograph of cultured HeLa cells originally derived many years ago from a woman's cancerous cervical tissue. A light micrograph (x130) of the same cells (inset) reveals rounded double cells in the center in the process of dividing. This HeLa cell (named after patient Henrietta Lacks) has been infected with adenovirus. After 4-1/2 hours the HeLa cell's surface becomes rough. The multiple surface blebs on this cell characteristic for a certain stage of cell division that both normal and cancer cells go through. Research with the SEM has established the extraordinarily responsive nature of cell surface form. This instrument records, in pictures, specific cell reactions to various changes in the cells environment and maps the distribution of surface binding sites for biologically important molecules such as hormone, antigens, and pharmacologic agents.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This orchard is as responsive as any other to the month of May. |
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Health | DRD has been remarkably responsive to small doses of this dopamine-boosting treatment. (references) | |
The ulcers caused by Zollinger-Ellison syndrome are more painful and less responsive to treatment than ordinary peptic ulcers. (references) | ||
Surgery is sometimes necessary to treat cases in the eyes, cases that are not responsive to drug treatment, or to reduce brain edema (swelling). (references) | ||
Business | Be responsive to the needs and feedback of the buyer. (references) | |
The dollar exchange rate is responsive to market forces. (references) | ||
Textile factory owners have become more conscious of the commercial implications of being environmentally responsive citizens. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | India | Victims of the incidents claim that the local police were not responsive either before or during the attacks. (references) |
Yemen | The article in question, which was published in October 2000, accused Mubarak of not being adequately responsive to the plight of the Palestinians. (references) | |
Egypt | Nonetheless, the approval process for church construction is time-consuming and insufficiently responsive to the wishes of the Christian community. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | Agriculture was perhaps the most responsive to the change from a command to market economic system. (references) |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | The St. Vincentian Government has generally been cooperative and responsive to U.S. offers of assistance. (references) | |
Mauritius | Senior officials tend to be more helpful than the bureaucracy, which is less responsive to business needs. (references) | |
Human Rights | East Timor | UNTAET officials are cooperative and responsive to their views. (references) |
Spain | Government agencies are responsive to the ombudsman's recommendations. (references) | |
Brazil | Federal officials usually are cooperative and responsive to their views. (references) | |
Political Economy | Saint Lucia | They are controlled by and responsive to the Government. (references) |
Grenada | It is controlled by and responsive to civilian authorities. (references) | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | The forces are controlled by and responsive to the Government. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | On January 25, three political opposition parties (Azamat, People's National Congress, and RNPK) withdrew from the process, stating that the Government was not responsive to their suggestions. (references) |
Trade | Greece | Greece has not been responsive to applications for introduction of bioengineered (genetically modified) seeds for field tests despite support for such tests by Greek farmers. (references) |
Ukraine | Ukraine is seeking to become a nation ruled by law, where human rights are respected and freedom of speech and press ensured, in which government policy and activity reflect the needs and wishes of an informed citizenry, and to whom representatives are responsive and officials are accountable. (references) | |
Travel | Ukraine | It is important to be very responsive to one's negotiating partner, even regarding seemingly mindless issues. (references) |
Bolivia | The importance of occasional personal visits from company representatives, as well as prompt, responsive handling of communications, cannot be overstated, given the key role played by local representatives. (references) | |
Women | Botswana | The national police force has begun training officers in handling domestic violence problems to make them more responsive in such cases. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | However, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has proved responsive to sit-ins or protests by workers who face obvious wrongdoing by their employers. (references) |
Brazil | The commission has allowed the PML to be more responsive to complaints regarding child labor and to encourage public commitments from officials to address child labor. (references) | |
Bahrain | According to representatives of several embassies with large numbers of workers in the country, the Government generally is responsive to embassy requests to investigate foreign worker complaints regarding unpaid wages and mistreatment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | That is the way to a responsible session and a responsive government. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I hope that the recommendations will be carefully considered by the new Administration and the Congress, for it is clear that we must take additional action to keep our immigration policy responsive to emergencies and ever changing times. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | This will make welfare less costly and more responsive to genuine need because it will be designed and administered closer to the grass roots of people it serves. |
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| "Responsive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Responsive" is used about 630 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.84% | 629 | 10,317 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 630 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "responsive": be responsive to smth. ♦ consistently responsive cell ♦ demand responsive ♦ demand responsive control ♦ demand responsive system. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "responsive": camp-responsive, climate-responsive, consumer-responsive, customer-responsive, ever-responsive, market-responsive, non-responsive, rate-responsive, rev-responsive, run-responsive, ultra-responsive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "responsive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që reagon lehtë, përgjegjës (accountable, answerable, boss, chief, corresponding, counsellor, curator, foreman, liable, manager, responsible, supervisor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متجاوب (reacting), حساس (compassionate, critical, emotional, feeling, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish), سريع الإجابة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчувствен (commiserative, compassionate, feeling, soft, sympathetic, understanding), служещ за отговор, с ектения, впечатлителен (impressible, impressionable, susceptible, susceptive), отговарящ (accordant, conformable, corresponding, respondent), отзивчив (approachable, co operative, forward, helpful, outgoing, respondent, soft-hearted, sympathetic, understanding, warmhearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 敏感 (impressionable, sensitive, stroppy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vnímavý (impressionable, open-hearted, perceptive, percipient, quick, receptive, susceptible, susceptive), citlivý (delicate, feeling, impressionable, open-hearted, sensitive, sore, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, vexed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | taxabus (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, on-call bus system), TAR nucleotidsekvens (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), sequenza TAR (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), sequenza reattiva che agisce in trans (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), efterspørgselsstyret transportsystem (demand responsive system), efterspørgselsstyret (demand actuated, demand responsive), dynamisk trafikregulering (adaptative control, demand responsive control, dynamic control, real time traffic control), CAR nucleotid sekvens (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence), bus kaldet over telefonen (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, on-call bus system), adaptiv trafikregulering (adaptative control, demand responsive control, dynamic control, real time traffic control). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verkeersafhankelijke beheersing (adaptative control, demand responsive control, dynamic control, real time traffic control), trans-acting responsive sequence (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), telefoonbus (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, on-call bus system), taxi-bus (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, on-call bus system), TAR-sequentie (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), tar-nucleotide sekwentie (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), dynamische verkeersbeheersing (adaptative control, demand responsive control, dynamic control, real time traffic control), cis-acting rev-responsive sequence (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence), CAR-sequentie (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence), car-nucleotide sekwentie (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence), autobus op verzoek (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, on-call bus system), aanbod afhankelijke inzet (demand actuated, demand responsive), aanbod afhankelijk vervoersysteem (demand responsive system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاسخی , واکشنی (Reactionary), علاقمندومتوجه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reaaliaikaohjaus (adaptative control, demand responsive control, dynamic control, real time traffic control), TAR-nukleotidisekvenssi (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), TAR-nukleotidijärjestys (TAR nucleotide sequence, TAR sequence, trans-acting responsive sequence), kysyntäohjauksinen joukkoliikennejärjestelmä (demand responsive system), kysyntäohjauksinen (demand actuated, demand responsive), kutsubussi (demand bus, demand responsive system, demand-scheduled bus service, dial-a-bus, dial-a-ride, on-call bus system), herätti vastakaikua (struck responsive chords), CAR-nukleotidisekvenssi (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence), CAR-nukleotidijärjestys (CAR nucleotide sequence, CAR sequence, cis-acting rev-responsive sequence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sensible, qui réagit bien, prêt â répondre, ouvert, enthousiaste (red-hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ansprechbar (addressable, amenable, open to conversation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευαίσθητοσ (delicate, emotional, impressionable, mushy, queasy, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, temperamental, thin-skinned, touchy), απαντητικόσ, αποκριτικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ'יב בחיוב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | válaszoló (respondent), készséges (accommodating, forthcoming, helpful, well-minded, whole-hearted, whole-souled, willing), fogékony (acceptant, apt, biddable, docile, impressionable, impulsive, receptive, recipient, sensitive, susceptible), felelő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tanggap, mau mendengarkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | di risposta, comprensivo (comprehensive, inclusive, quick, sympathetic, understanding), che reagisce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 交読文 (responsive readings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うどくぶ" (responsive readings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 대답하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | freggyragh (amenable, answerable, conformable, congruent, consonant, liable, reactive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esponsiveray responsivo, suscetível (accessible, hokey-pokey, huffy, improve, kid glove, likely, sensitive, sensory, sore, squeamish, susceptible, ticklish, touchy), sensível (accessible, delicate, feeling, finicky, huffish, huffy, impressible, kid glove, novelettish, peseta, sensible, sensitive, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sentimental, sore, susceptible, tender, thinskinned, ticklish), que responde (respondent), impressionável (accessible, impressible, impression, impressionable, receptive, sensitive, sensory, susceptible, tender), compreensivo (accessible to reason, comprehensible, kindly, large, open minded, sympathetic, understanding). (various references) simţitor la, sensibil (appreciably, considerable, considerably, delicate, feeling, impressible, impressionable, marked, noticeably, painful, palpable, passible, scrupulous, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tangible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy), impresionabil (excitable, impressionable, susceptible), cordial (cordial, cordially, genial, good humoured, good-humored, heart-felt, hearty, kind, sincere, stimulating, true, warm, whole heartedly, whole-hearted). (various references) ответный (retaliatory, sympathetic), легко реагирующий. (various references) koji uzvraća. (various references) responsivo, sensible (adoptive, alive, amenable, appreciative, appreciatory, feeling, noticeable, perceptible, regrettable, sensitive, sentient, susceptive, tangible, tender), que reacciona con entusiasmo, nervioso (edgy, excitable, excited, fidgety, irritable, lively, nervate, nerve, nervous, nervy, on edge, sinewy, uncool, wiry, worked up). (various references) svars-, känslig (delicate, exquisite, nice, sensitive, sharp, thin-skinned, touchy, vulnerable). (various references) uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), hevesli (ambitious, anxious, desirous, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, greedy, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, keen, spirited, studious, zealous), hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, feeling, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, queasy, quick, raw, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, sore, spoony, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), esnek (elastic, flexible, flexile, limber, limp, lithe, loose-jointed, nonrigid, non-rigid, pliable, pliant, resilient, spring, springy, sprung, supple), elastik (elastic, flexible, resilient, supple), duyarlı (capable, delicate, emotional, feeling, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, liable, reactive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned), cevap veren (answering, respondent, satisfying), cevap niteliğinde olan. (various references) чутливий (affectional, feeling, high strung, highly strung, hightoned, impressionable, nice, rocky, sensible, sensitive, sensory, sentient, susceptible, ticklish), чуйний (alive, charitable, feeling, kind hearted, ministering, nice, respondent, understanding), одержаний у відповідь (retaliatory, retorted). (various references) trả lời sẵn s ng đáp lại, đáp lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | docile. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "responsive": responsively, responsiveness, responsivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "responsive": corresponsive, hyperresponsive, irresponsive, nonresponsive, unresponsive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "responsive": irresponsiveness, irresponsivenesses, unresponsively, unresponsiveness, unresponsivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Responsive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: responsibe, resposi, resposive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "responsive" (pronounced ruspÄ"nsiv) |
| 9 | r u s p Ä" n s i v | nonresponsive. |
| 7 | -s p Ä" n s i v | unresponsive. |
| 4 | -n s i v | apprehensive, comprehensive, counteroffensive, defensive, expansive, expensive, extensive, hypertensive, inexpensive, inoffensive, offensive, pensive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, decisive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, explosive, expressive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, obsessive, obtrusive, oppressive, passive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: eversions, isoprenes, overspins. | |
-2 letters: erepsins, eversion, inverses, isoprene, overspin, pioneers, previses, response, ripeness, ropiness, versines, versions. | |
-3 letters: enviers, eosines, erepsin, erosive, inverse, openers, orpines, penises, pensive, peonies, pereion, persons, pioneer, poesies, poisers, previse, prisons, prossie, renvois, reopens, repines, reposes, revises, seiners, seniors, senores, sereins, serines, snipers, soirees, sonsier, spinors, spinose, veiners, venires, versine. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: perversions. | |
+2 letters: irresponsive, perviousness, previousness, responsively, sportiveness, unresponsive. | |
+3 letters: corresponsive, nondispersive, nonpermissive, nonresponsive, operativeness, preservations, promotiveness, purposiveness, superventions, unprogressive. | |
+4 letters: imperviousness, nonprogressive, oppressiveness, overexpansions, overimpressing, overpersuasion, overprocessing, perseverations, perviousnesses, prerevisionist, previousnesses, productiveness, protectiveness, protrusiveness, responsiveness, sportivenesses, supportiveness, unresponsively, vaporishnesses. | |
+5 letters: antiprogressive, comparativeness, cooperativeness, hyperresponsive, impoverishments, inoperativeness, nonprogressives, operativenesses, overcompressing, overpersuasions, prerevisionists, preservationist, progressiveness, prohibitiveness, promotivenesses, provocativeness, purposivenesses, superelevations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 70 6F 6E 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... .--. --- -. ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s p o n s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0070 006F 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718582818085758871 |
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