responsive

English

Etymology

From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɒn.sɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/
• Hyphenation: res‧pon‧sive

Adjective

responsive (comparative more responsive, superlative most responsive)

1. Answering, replying or responding
2. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
3. Using antiphons; antiphonal.
4. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
5. (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.

6. (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.

7. (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

• nonresponsive
• unresponsive

Derived terms

• alloresponsive
• bioresponsive
• chemoresponsive
• corresponsive
• ecoresponsive
• electroresponsive
• hyperresponsive
• hyporesponsive
• immunoresponsive
• irresponsive
• isoresponsive
• magnetoresponsive
• mechanoresponsive
• multiresponsive
• normoresponsive
• osmoresponsive
• overresponsive
• photoresponsive
• radioresponsive
• responsively
• responsiveness
• responsive web design
• responsivity
• responsorial
• seroresponsive
• thermoresponsive
• underresponsive
• vasoresponsive

Translations

answering, replying or responding

Bulgarian: отговарящ (bg) (otgovarjašt) Finnish: reagoiva (fi) Greek: αποκριτικός (el) (apokritikós) Hungarian: reagáló (hu), válaszoló (hu), felelő (hu), reagál (hu) Polish: odpowiadający m Spanish: responsivo, respondiente, respondedor, contestador (es), contestante

able to receive and respond to external stimuli

Finnish: reagoiva (fi) French: sensible (fr) German: ansprechbar (de) Hungarian: fogékony (hu), együttműködő (hu), készséges (hu), érzékeny (hu), rugalmas (hu) Italian: sensibile (it) Portuguese: sensível (pt) Romanian: sensibil (ro) m or n, simțitor (ro) m or n, răspundent m or n Spanish: sensible (es), responsivo, receptivo, reaccionante Swedish: responsiv

using antiphons; antiphonal

susceptible to the feelings of others

Bulgarian: отзивчив (bg) (otzivčiv), чувствителен (bg) (čuvstvitelen) Finnish: herkkä (fi) Hungarian: odafigyelő, empatikus (hu) Spanish: empático (es), responsivo, reaccionante, receptivo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pɔ̃.siv/
• Homophone: responsives

Adjective

responsive

1. feminine singular of responsif

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

responsive

1. inflection of responsiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

responsive

1. feminine plural of responsivo

Anagrams

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