receptive

CEFRC1

/ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Willing to listen to or accept new ideas.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.

Examples

  • The Japanese are highly receptive to new ideas.

  • Tom wasn't real receptive to the plan.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

  2. Capable of receiving something.

  3. Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.

More examples

In context

  • The patient was receptive to her treatment

  • receptive to the idea

  • receptive fluency

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

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Origin

adjective

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 occup...