responsive

Answering, replying or responding

Adjective

  1. Answering, replying or responding
  2. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  3. Using antiphons; antiphonal.
  4. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
  5. Automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space.
    • Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design. - 2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise:
  6. Suited to something else; correspondent.
    • The vocal lay responsive to the strings. - 1725, Homer, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
  7. Responsible.
    • he [the bishop] must be responsive for all his diocese - 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:

Origin

From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.

Forms

more responsive most responsive

Antonyms

nonresponsive unresponsive

Derived

alloresponsive bioresponsive chemoresponsive corresponsive ecoresponsive electroresponsive hyperresponsive hyporesponsive immunoresponsive irresponsive isoresponsive magnetoresponsive mechanoresponsive multiresponsive normoresponsive osmoresponsive overresponsive photoresponsive radioresponsive responsive design responsively responsiveness responsive web design responsivity