Mary's realisation that she was gay plunged her into a reactive depression.
Source: tatoeba (4537008)
Reactive
//ɹiːˈæktɪv//
Synonyms for "reactive" (19 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (9)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
52 entriesShowing 16 of 52 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
12 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- реактивен adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Catalan
1 entries- reactiu adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Danish
2 entries- reaktionsdygtig adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
- reaktiv adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Galician
1 entries- reactivo adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Hungarian
2 entries- reakcióképes adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
- reaktív adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Irish
1 entries- imoibríoch adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- reaktiv adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- reaktiv adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Occitan
1 entries- reactiu adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Polish
1 entries- aktywny adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Spanish
1 entries- reactivo adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Turkish
1 entries- gerici adj ((in chemistry) able to react)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
We'd much rather be proactive than reactive.
Source: tatoeba (7117632)
We have been reticent, or maybe just slow, or maybe we’ve denied the changes that are going on. And so we’ve been slow to react to them. We haven’t been proactive. We’ve been reactive.
Source: tatoeba (8185327)
Retroactive jealousy is more toxic than reactive jealousy.
Source: tatoeba (10730346)
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.