How do you use the word "receptive" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "receptive": The Japanese are highly receptive to new ideas. Tom wasn't real receptive to the plan.

Receptive Meaning

/ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjCapable of receiving something.

adjReady to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

Sentence Examples

The Japanese are highly receptive to new ideas.

Tom wasn't real receptive to the plan.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

open hospitable

Antonyms:

impervious

CEFR Practice Quiz

During the lecture, the ____ audience actively engaged with the speaker's ideas.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The audience was highly ____ to the new ideas presented and asked many thoughtful questions.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -īvus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipiō (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capiō (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 1921, Herbert Jenkins, Malcolm Sage, Detective:

"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." — 1917 June 26, National Geographic Magazine, Volume 31/Number 6/Our State Flowers/The Moccasin Flower:

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