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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Responsive \Re*spon"sive\ (-s?v), adjective [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}, adverb -- {Re*spon"sive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
responsive
adjective
1: 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: readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student" [syn: {amenable}, {tractable}]
4: susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "responsive": accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, adaptive, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive, allergic, amenable, anaphylactic, answering, antiphonal, ardent, bendable, bending, bouncy, buoyant, communicating, communicational, communicative, communional, compassionate, compliant, confutative, consenting, content, conversational, cooperative, delicate, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, echoic, echoing, elastic, emotionable, empathetic, empathic, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, forward, game, giving, goosy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, irritable, itchy, keen, kindhearted, like putty, limber, linguistic, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, malleable, minded, moldable, movable, nervous, open, open-minded, oral, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prickly, prompt, prone, questioning, quick, reacting, reactionary, reactive, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reechoing, refined, reflex, reflexive, refluent, refutative, rejoining, replying, resilient, respondent, responding, retroactionary, retroactive, returning, revulsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sequacious, shapable, sharp, skittish, soft, softhearted, speech, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supersensitive, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, tactful, telepathic, tender, tenderhearted, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, tractable, tractile, transmissional, verbal, warm, warmhearted, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, wide-awake, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous
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