| Main Entry: | receptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open to new ideas |
Synonyms: |
acceptant, acceptive, accessible, alert, amenable, approachable, bright, favorable, friendly, hospitable, influenceable, interested, observant, open, open to suggestions, open-minded, perceptive, persuadable, pushover, quick on the uptake, ready, recipient, responsive, sensitive, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, sympathetic, welcoming, well-disposed |
Antonyms: |
unfriendly, unreceptive |
| Main Entry: | appreciative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understanding, recognizing worth |
Synonyms: |
admiring, affectionate, alive, aware, cognizant, conscious, considerate, cooperative, cordial, enlightened, enthusiastic, favorable, friendly, generous, keen, kindly, knowledgeable, magnanimous, mindful, perceptive, pleased, receptive, regardful, respectful, responsive, satisfied, sensitive, supportive, sympathetic, understanding |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, neglectful |
| Main Entry: | approachable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
Synonyms: |
affable, agreeable, congenial, cordial, open, receptive, sociable |
Antonyms: |
uncongenial, unfriendly, unsociable |
| 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, free-thinking, indulgent, liberal, open, open-minded, permissive, progressive, radical, receptive, responsive, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, undogmatic, unprejudiced, wide |
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, large-scale, liberal, open-minded, planetary, receptive, tolerant, unbigoted, universal, unprejudiced, unsectarian, whole, wide, 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, attached, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, buddy-buddy, chummy, civil, close, clubby, comradely, conciliatory, confiding, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, on good terms, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, welcoming, well-disposed |
Antonyms: |
aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unreceptive, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
Synonyms: |
affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
Antonyms: |
insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | liberal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | progressive |
Synonyms: |
advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanistic, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, latitudinarian, left, lenient, libertarian, loose, magnanimous, permissive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, reformist, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced |
Antonyms: |
conservative, narrow, narrow-minded |
| Main Entry: | open |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest, objective |
Synonyms: |
artless, candid, disinterested, fair, frank, free, guileless, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, lay it on the line, mellow, natural, objective, on the level, open-and-shut, openhearted, plain, receptive, sincere, straightforward, talking turkey, transparent, unbiased, uncommitted, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled, unprejudiced, unreserved, up-front |
Antonyms: |
deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, lying, shifty, subjective |