Word Meanings - RESPONSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond. 2. Suited to something else; correspondent. The vocal lay responsive to the strings. Pope. 3. Responsible. Jer. Taylor. -- Re*spon"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*spon"sive*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESPONSIVE)

• Prompt
• Ready
• alert
• responsive
• active
• quick
• brisk
• apt
• unhesitating
• expeditions
• speedy
• dexterous
• skilful
• handy
• expert
• facile
• easy
• opportune
• fitted
• prepared
• disposed
• willing
• free
• cheerful
• compliant

Related words: (words related to RESPONSIVE)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• QUICKEN
  1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• BRISK
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
• WILLINGLY
  In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• WILLEMITE
  A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals containing manganese.
• WILLOW-WORT
  Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.
• RETROACTIVE
  Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• TOWILLY
  The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
• REFRACTIVE
  Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction