Receptive
[rɪ'septɪv] or [rɪ'sɛptɪv]
Definition
(adj.) able to absorb liquid (not repellent); 'the paper is ink-receptive' .
(adj.) open to arguments, ideas, or change; 'receptive to reason and the logic of facts' .
(adj.) ready or willing to receive favorably; 'receptive to the proposals' .
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
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Examples
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He had regarded Rosamond's cleverness as precisely of the receptive kind which became a woman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the second place, the interest in experience as a means of basing truth upon objects, upon nature, led to looking at the mind as purely receptive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But Ursula's mind ceased to be receptive, everything was unimportant and unreal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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