The Japanese are highly receptive to new ideas.
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Receptive
//ɹɪˈsɛptɪv//
Synonyms for "receptive" (172 found)
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Strong matches (51)
Related words (86)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
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1 entriesRelated terms
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derived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
related to
6 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
60 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πᾰθητῐκός adj (capable of receiving something)
Arabic
1 entries- سَمَّاع adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Armenian
1 entries- ընդունակ adj (capable of receiving something)
Bulgarian
2 entries- възприемчив adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- разгонена adj (of a female animal: prepared to mate — see also in heat)
Catalan
2 entries- receptiu adj (capable of receiving something)
- receptiu adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Danish
2 entries- modtagelig adj (capable of receiving something)
- modtagelig adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Dutch
2 entries- ontvankelijk adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- vatbaar adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Esperanto
2 entries- akceptema adj (capable of receiving something)
- akceptema adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Finnish
4 entries- avoin adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- myötätuntoinen adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- taipuvainen adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- vastaanottavainen adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
French
1 entries- réceptif adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
German
4 entries- aufnahmefähig adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- empfangsbereit adj (capable of receiving something)
- empfänglich adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- rezeptiv adj (capable of receiving something)
Greek
1 entries- παθητικός adj (capable of receiving something)
Hungarian
1 entries- befogadó adj (capable of receiving something)
Irish
3 entries- gabhálach adj (capable of receiving something)
- gabhálach adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- glacach adj (capable of receiving something)
Italian
2 entries- recettibile adj (capable of receiving something)
- ricettivo adj (capable of receiving something)
Kazakh
2 entries- қабылдағыш adj (capable of receiving something)
- қабылдағыш adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Latin
1 entries- susceptīvus adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Macedonian
1 entries- рецептивен adj (capable of receiving something)
Māori
3 entries- mauminamina adj (capable of receiving something)
- mauminamina adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- mauritū adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- mottakelig adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- næm adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Persian
1 entries- نیوشا adj (capable of receiving something)
Polish
1 entries- chłonny adj (capable of receiving something)
Portuguese
4 entries- aberto adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- receptivo adj (capable of receiving something)
- receptivo adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
- receptível adj (capable of receiving something)
Romanian
2 entries- primitor adj (capable of receiving something)
- receptiv adj (capable of receiving something)
Russian
1 entries- восприимчивый adj (capable of receiving something)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prijèmčiv adj (capable of receiving something)
- rȅceptīvan adj (capable of receiving something)
- пријѐмчив adj (capable of receiving something)
- ре̏цептӣван adj (capable of receiving something)
Spanish
2 entries- receptivo adj (capable of receiving something)
- receptivo adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Swedish
1 entries- öppen adj (ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom wasn't real receptive to the plan.
Source: tatoeba (3725413)
Sami was pretty receptive.
Source: tatoeba (7278187)
My tendency is to characterize much of this universe as a very vast desert with rare biology. Meanwhile, my friend Bratislav "Brian" Tepsa opines that forms of biology are ubiquitous throughout this universe. I remain receptive.
Source: tatoeba (9085709)
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