Usually means: Open and responsive to ideas.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. receptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. receptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. receptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. receptive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Receptive, receptive: Wordnik
  7. receptive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. receptive: Wiktionary
  9. receptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. receptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. receptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. receptive: Dictionary.com
  13. receptive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Receptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. receptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. receptive: Rhymezone
  17. receptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. receptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. receptive: Free Dictionary
  20. receptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. receptive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. receptive: Legal dictionary

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  1. receptive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Receptive: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. receptive: Medical dictionary

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  1. receptive: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See receptively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Capable of receiving something.
adjective:  Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
adjective:  (botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
adjective:  (neurology, psychology) Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
adjective:  (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

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