Receptive

Quick meaning: Receptive is an adjective meaning Capable of receiving something.

Meaning

Capable of receiving something.

More Meanings

1. Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
2. (botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
3. (neurology, psychology) Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
4. (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

Example Sentences

receptive to the idea

The patient was receptive to her treatment

The owner drank cider at the Spotted Woodpigeon and talked pleasantly with the villagers, who, on learning that he had never even heard of the Surrey cattle-maimings, were at great pains to pour information and theories into his receptive ear.

When the delightful draught is quaffed and the winged beggar turns to leave, it is confronted with a straight and narrow way out, and before the open can be reached our bee must squeeze under a receptive stigma covered with sticky hairs which comb the pollen grains from the fuzzy back of the visitor.

Synonyms for receptive

Depending on context, synonyms include acceptive, oestrual, hospitable, pervious, sensory, admissive.

Antonyms for receptive

Common opposites include irreceptive, nonreceptive, unreceptive, expressive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include admissive, acceptant, acceptive, hospitable, sensory, pervious.

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