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Receptive
Definitions
- 1 Capable of receiving something.
- 2 Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
"receptive to the idea"
- 3 Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
"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."
- 4 Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
- 5 Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.
- 1 able to absorb liquid (not repellent) wordnet
- 2 of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system wordnet
- 3 open to arguments, ideas, or change wordnet
- 4 ready or willing to receive favorably wordnet
Etymology
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”)).
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