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receptive - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: receptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open to new ideas
Synonyms: accessible, alert, amenable, approachable, bright, favorable, friendly, hospitable, interested, observant, open, open-minded, perceptive, persuadable, pushover*, ready, recipient, responsive, sensitive, susceptible, sympathetic, acceptant, acceptive, influenceable, open to suggestions, quick on the uptake, suggestible, swayable, welcoming, well-disposed
Antonyms: unfriendly, unreceptive
Main Entry: aware
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: knowledgeable
Synonyms: acquainted, alert, alive, appraised, appreciative, apprehensive, apprised, attentive, au courant, awake, cognizant, conscious, cool*, enlightened, familiar, go-go, groovy*, grounded, heedful, hip*, in the know, in the picture, informed, into*, know the score, know what's what, know-how, knowing, latched on, mindful, on the beam, on to, perceptive, plugged in, receptive, savvy, sensible, sentient, sharp, tuned in, up on, wise, wise to, wised up, with it*
Antonyms: ignorant, insensitive, unaware, unconscious
Main Entry: broad-minded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: liberal
Synonyms: advanced, catholic, cosmopolitan, dispassionate, flexible, indulgent, liberal, open, open-minded, permissive, progressive, radical, receptive, responsive, tolerant, unbiased, unprejudiced, wide, free-thinking, unbigoted, undogmatic
Antonyms: close-minded, small-minded
Main Entry: catholic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all-embracing, general
Synonyms: all-inclusive, broad-minded, charitable, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, diffuse, eclectic, ecumenical, extensive, generic, global, inclusive, indeterminate, liberal, open-minded, planetary, receptive, tolerant, universal, unprejudiced, whole, wide, large-scale, unbigoted, unsectarian, world-wide
Notes: Catholic means of or relating to or supporting the Roman Catholic Church while catholic means of broad or liberal scope
Catholic means of or relating to or supporting the Roman Catholic Church while catholic means of broad or liberal scope
Antonyms: narrow, narrow-minded, specific
Main Entry: friendly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intimate, companionable
Synonyms: affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, chummy*, civil, close, conciliatory, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, attached, buddy-buddy*, clubby, comradely, confiding, on good terms, welcoming, well-disposed*
Antonyms: aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, unfriendly, unsociable, uncompanionable, unreceptive
Main Entry: impressionable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easily taught; gullible
Synonyms: affected, feeling, impressible, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic*, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, vulnerable, affectable, influenceable, sensile, suggestible, susceptive, wax-like
Antonyms: obstinate, stubborn, unresponsive, insusceptible, unimpressionable
Main Entry: passive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lifeless, inactive
Synonyms: apathetic, asleep, bearing, compliant, cool, docile, enduring, flat, forbearing, idle, indifferent, inert, laid-back*, latent, long-suffering, motionless, nonviolent, patient, phlegmatic, quiescent, quiet, receptive, resigned, sleepy, static, stolid, submissive, tractable, unflappable, yielding, acquiescent, going through motions, hands off, moony, nonresistant, poker-faced*, unassertive, uninvolved, unresisting, walking through it
Antonyms: active, dynamic, lively
Main Entry: pliable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bendable, adaptable
Synonyms: compliant, docile, ductile, easy, flexible, impressionable, limber, lithe, malleable, manageable, obedient, plastic, pliant, receptive, responsive, spongy, submissive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, easily led, manipulable, moldable, putty, rolling with the punches
Antonyms: inflexible, rigid, stiff, unyielding, unadaptable, unbendable, unpliable, unpliant
Main Entry: responsive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: quick to react
Synonyms: active, alive, awake, aware, compassionate, conscious, forthcoming, impressionable, kindhearted, open, passionate, perceptive, persuadable, receptive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sharp, softhearted, susceptible, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, acknowledging, answering, influenceable, reactive, replying, respondent, sensile, susceptive
Antonyms: insensitive, unresponsive, unsusceptible
Main Entry: sensory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: affecting animate nerve organs
Synonyms: acoustic, audible, auditory, auricular, clear, discernible, distinct, ocular, perceptible, plain, receptive, sensational, sensible, sensual, tactile, visual, afferent, audiovisual, aural, gustative, gustatory, hearable, lingual, neural, neurological, olfactive, olfactory, ophthalmic, optic, phonic, sensatory, sonic
Main Entry: sentient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conscious
Synonyms: alert, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, informed, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, responsive, seeing, understanding, watchful, able to recognize, apperceptive, in on, in the right mind, recognizing, sensitive to
Main Entry: susceptible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exposed, naive
Synonyms: affected, disposed, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, obnoxious, open, out on a limb*, persuadable, predisposed, prone, pushover, ready, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sitting duck*, soft, subject, sucker, swallow, tender, touched, vulnerable, aroused, be taken in, easily moved, nonresistant, roused, sensile, stirred, suggestible, susceptive, swayed, tumble for, wide open
Antonyms: resistant, resisting, unsusceptible
Main Entry: tolerant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: open-minded, easygoing
Synonyms: advanced, benevolent, big, broad, broad-minded, catholic, charitable, clement, complaisant, condoning, fair, forbearing, forgiving, free and easy, humane, indulgent, kindhearted*, lax, lenient, liberal, long-suffering*, magnanimous, merciful, patient, permissive, progressive, radical, receptive, soft, sophisticated, sympathetic, understanding, unprejudiced, wide, easy on, easy with, excusing
Antonyms: biased, intolerant, narrow-minded, prejudiced, disapproving
Main Entry: penetrable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: permeable
Synonyms: accessible, open, passable, pervious, porous, receptive, susceptible
Main Entry: liberal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: progressive
Synonyms: advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, left, lenient, loose, magnanimous, permissive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, tolerant, unbiased, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced, humanistic, latitudinarian, libertarian, reformist, unbigoted
Antonyms: conservative, narrow, narrow-minded
Main Entry: sensitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: impressionable
Synonyms: acute, cognizant, conscious, delicate, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up*, impressible, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, receptive, responsive, seeing, sensory, sentient, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, tricky, understanding, unstable, wired*, easily affected, emotionable, hypersensitive, oversensitive, reactive, sensatory, sensile, sensorial, supersensitive, touchy feely, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous
Antonyms: impassive, insensitive, thick-skinned, unsusceptible
Main Entry: approachable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly
Synonyms: affable, agreeable, congenial, cordial, open, receptive, sociable
Antonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly, unsociable
Main Entry: plastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easily influenced
Synonyms: amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, malleable, manageable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding, influenceable, moldable, suggestible
Antonyms: inflexible, unflappable
Main Entry: quick
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: smart
Synonyms: able, active, acute, adept, adroit, apt, astute, bright, canny, capable, clever, competent, deft, dexterous, discerning, effective, effectual, intelligent, keen, knowing, on the ball*, perceptive, perspicacious, prompt, quick-witted, ready, receptive, savvy*, sharp, shrewd, skillful, slick, vigorous, whiz*, wired*, wise, all there, nimble-witted, quick on the draw, quick on the trigger, quick on the uptake, sharp as a tack, smart as a whip
Antonyms: ignorant, slow, stupid, uneducated
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