responsive

adj.

1. Answering or replying; responding.
2. Readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals, or efforts: a responsive student.
3. Containing or using responses: responsive reading; responsive liturgy.

responsively re·spon'sive·ly adv.
responsiveness re·spon'sive·ness n.

adjective

1. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli: impressible, impressionable, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive. See awareness/unawareness.
2. Ready and willing to receive favorably, as new ideas: acceptant, amenable, open, open-minded, receptive. See accept/reject.
3. Easily approached: accessible, approachable, welcoming. See approach/retreat, attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

adj

Definition: quick to react
Antonyms: apathetic, insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible

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The adjective has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: (religion) containing or using responses or antiphons recited or sung in alternation
  Synonym: antiphonal
  Pertains to noun: response (meaning #5)

Meaning #2: readily reacting to people or events; showing emotion
  Antonym: unresponsive (meaning #1)

Meaning #3: susceptible to suggestion
  Synonym: tractable

Meaning #4: readily reacting to suggestions and influences

Meaning #5: susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - interesseret, lydhør

Nederlands (Dutch)
bereid te antwoorden/ reageren

Français (French)
adj. - réceptif, affectueux, dynamique, (Aut) nerveux, qui répond bien

Deutsch (German)
adj. - aufgeschlossen, empfänglich, empfindlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - που ανταποκρίνεται πρόθυμα ή αντιδρά ευνοϊκά, ευαίσθητος, ευσυγκίνητος, απαντητικός

Italiano (Italian)
rispondente, sensibile, disponibile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - responsivo, impressionável

Русский (Russian)
отзывчивый, чуткий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sensible

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - mottaglig, lyhörd, svars-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
回答的, 易感应的, 应答的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 回答的, 易感應的, 應答的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 바로 대답하는, 대답의, 응답 성가를 부르는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 答える, 反応する, 物わかりのよい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) سريع الإستجابه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נענה מהר, עונה בחום, משיב בהבנה, מגיב בחיוב‬

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