Dictionary Definition
receptive adj
1 open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive
to reason and the logic of facts"
2 ready or willing to receive favorably;
"receptive to the proposals" [ant: unreceptive]
3 of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside
and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
[syn: centripetal,
sensory(a)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
capable of receiving something
- Danish: modtagelig
- Spanish: receptivo
ready to receive new ideas or concepts
- Finnish: vastaanottavainen, avoin
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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