different between reactive vs receptive

English

Etymology

From react +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??ækt?v/
• Rhymes: -ækt?v

Adjective

reactive (comparative more reactive, superlative most reactive)

1. that reacts or responds to a stimulus
2. (chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions

3. (electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
4. Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.

Antonyms

• proactive

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• creative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rea??tibe/, [re.a???t?i.??e]

Verb

reactive

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reactivar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reactivar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reactivar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reactivar.

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -?vus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipi? (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capi? (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-, *keh?p- (“to hold; to seize”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???s?pt?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???s?pt?v/
• Rhymes: -?pt?v
• Hyphenation: re?cept?ive

Adjective

receptive (comparative more receptive, superlative most receptive)

1. Capable of receiving something.

   Antonyms: irreceptive, nonreceptive, unreceptive

2. Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

   Synonyms: acceptive, susceptive

   Antonym: unreceptive

3. (botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
4. (neurology, psychology) Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.

   Antonym: expressive

5. (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

   Synonym: oestrual

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