responsive
English
Etymology
From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɒn.sɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/
- Hyphenation: res‧pon‧sive
Adjective
responsive (comparative more responsive, superlative most responsive)
- Answering, replying or responding
- Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
- Using antiphons; antiphonal.
- Susceptible to the feelings of others.
- (graphical user interface) Automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space.
- 2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise:
- Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.
- (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
- 1725, Homer, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (obsolete) Responsible.
- 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
- he [the bishop] must be responsive for all his diocese
Antonyms
Derived terms
- alloresponsive
- bioresponsive
- chemoresponsive
- corresponsive
- electroresponsive
- hyperresponsive
- hyporesponsive
- immunoresponsive
- irresponsive
- isoresponsive
- magnetoresponsive
- mechanoresponsive
- normoresponsive
- osmoresponsive
- overresponsive
- photoresponsive
- responsively
- responsiveness
- responsive web design
- responsorial
- seroresponsive
- thermoresponsive
- underresponsive
- vasoresponsive
Translations
answering, replying or responding
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able to receive and respond to external stimuli
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using antiphons; antiphonal
susceptible to the feelings of others
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛs.pɔ̃.siv/
- Homophone: responsives
Adjective
responsive
- feminine singular of responsif
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
responsive
- inflection of responsiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
responsive
- feminine plural of responsivo