responsive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective containing or using responses; alternating
    antiphonal.
    • responsive reading
    • antiphonal laughter
  2. adjective readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
    • children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience
  3. adjective satellite reacting to a stimulus
    reactive.
    • the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons

WordNet

Re*spon"sive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. resposif.
Definitions
  1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
  2. Suited to something else; correspondent.
    The vocal lay responsive to the strings. Pope.
  3. Responsible. Obs. Jer. Taylor. -- Re*spon"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*spon"sive*ness, n.

Webster 1913