Hypertext Webster Gateway: "responsive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Responsive \Re*spon"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. resposif.]
1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
2. Suited to something else; correspondent.
The vocal lay responsive to the strings. --Pope.
3. Responsible. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. -- {Re*spon"sive*ly},
adv. -- {Re*spon"sive*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
responsive
adj 1: (religion) containing or using responses or antiphons
recited or sung in alternation; "responsive reading";
"antiphonal liturgy" [syn: {antiphonal}]
2: readily reacting to people or events; showing emotion;
"children are often the quickest and most responsive
members of the audience" [ant: {unresponsive}]
3: susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your
desires" [syn: {tractable}]
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"
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