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As an adjective, responsive means answering, replying or responding.
Meanings of responsive
10 meaningsadjective
Answering, replying or responding
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli
Using antiphons; antiphonal
Susceptible to the feelings of others
guiAutomatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space
Containing or using responses; alternating
“responsive reading”
“antiphonal laughter”
Similar: antiphonalReadily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
“children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience”
Reacting to a stimulus
“the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons”
Similar: reactive
Older and rare meanings (2)
obsoleteSuited to something else; correspondent
obsoleteResponsible
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).