receptive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=cep=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

receptive, a. [Cf. F. réceptif. See Receive.].

 Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.  [1913 Webster]
"Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

receptive, adj.
1 able or quick to receive impressions or ideas.
2 concerned with receiving stimuli etc.

Derivative

receptively adv. receptiveness n. receptivity n.

Etymology

F r{eacute}ceptif -ive or med.L receptivus (as RECEPTION)

THESAURUS

receptive

accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, admissible, admissive, admissory, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive to, amenable, amiable, apt, ardent, astute, aware, bendable, bending, bright, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, consenting, content, cooperative, cordial, delicate, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, educable, elastic, emotionable, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, forward, friendly, game, generous, genial, giving, gracious, hearty, hospitable, imbibitory, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, ingestive, instructable, intelligent, interested, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, keen, liberal, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, movable, neighborly, open, open-minded, openhearted, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receivable, receiving, receptible, recipient, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensatory, sensible, sensile, sensimotor, sensitive, sensitive to, sensorial, sensorimotor, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sequacious, shapable, sharp, sib, soft, softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, warm, warmhearted, weak, welcoming, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous