responsive

[Re*spon·sive]

People who are responsive are alert and aware they've giving responses. The least responsive people in the world are people in deep comas.

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That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

Adjective
readily reacting to people or events; showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience"

Adjective S.
susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people"

Adjective S.
readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"

Adjective
containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal liturgy"


a.
That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

a.
Suited to something else; correspondent.

a.
Responsible.


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.
3. Responsible. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Re*spon"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*spon"sive*ness, n.

That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

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Usage Examples

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

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Other Usage Examples

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

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