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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appreciative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understanding, recognizing worth |
| Synonyms: | 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, sympathetic, understanding, admiring, supportive |
| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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