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receptive
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)
- Capable of receiving something.
- Antonyms: irreceptive, nonreceptive, unreceptive
- Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
- Synonyms: acceptive, susceptive
- Antonym: unreceptive
- (botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
- (neurology, psychology) Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
- Antonym: expressive
- (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.
- Synonym: oestrual
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agreeable
English
Etymology
From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable; displaced native Old English cweme (“pleasing, agreeable”). Equivalent to agree +? -able.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /????i??bl/
Adjective
agreeable (comparative more agreeable, superlative most agreeable)
- pleasant to the senses or the mind
- the train of agreeable reveries.
- (dated) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
- 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge
- These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
- 1529, Hugh Latimer, sermon in Cambridge
- Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with.
- Synonyms: conformable, correspondent, concordant
- In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; used adverbially
Synonyms
- (pleasing, pleasant): See Thesaurus:pleasant
- (willing): See Thesaurus:acquiescent
- (conforming): See Thesaurus:agreeable
Translations
Noun
agreeable (plural agreeables)
- Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
- 1855, Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Further reading
- agreeable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- agreeable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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