responsive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: responsive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for responsive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
responsive adj containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal laughter" Synonym(s): responsive, antiphonal readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience" Antonym(s): unresponsive reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons" Synonym(s): reactive, responsive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Responsive \Respon"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. -- {Respon"sively}, adv. -- {Respon"siveness}, n.