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responsive

UK/ɹɪˈspɒn.sɪv/US/ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/
adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,196 of 15,258leans written

Responsive means quick to react to what people or events do. A responsive government, responsive design, highly responsive.

In web design, responsive means a page that rearranges itself to fit whatever screen it is on, which has been the standard approach since about 2010. Of a person or an institution it is praise for reacting rather than for planning.

Definitions of responsive

  1. 1adjectiveresponsiveQuick to react to what people or events do.B2+

    “The new manager is very responsive to complaints and usually replies the same day.”

responsive is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin responsivus comes from respondere, to answer — re, back, plus spondere, to pledge.

  1. Latin

    responsivus

  2. Middle French

    responsif

  3. English, today

    responsive

From Middle French responsif, from Latin responsivus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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responsive in the wild

  • CAMP responsive element binding protein 1, also known as CREB-1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CREB1 gene.

    CREB1

  • Cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CREB3 gene.

    CREB3

  • For instance, the English verb know is responsive as shown by the following examples.

    Responsive predicate

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.