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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
receptive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ And there are signs the regime is now more receptive.
▪ If he implements it and things go well, he will be more receptive to employee input in the future.
▪ We feel they are more receptive to a message with a festive rather than a dramatic content.
▪ Inevitably, I tried out my new ideas on the people closest at hand: Some were more receptive than others.
▪ Steaming softens and opens the pores so that the skin is more receptive to other products and ingredients.
▪ As a result, plant employees became more receptive to policies and programs they might well have otherwise winked at or rejected.
▪ Similarly, managers and directors appeared to share an equivalent value orientation to the fans and were more receptive to their opinions.
▪ They have turned instead to states and cities considered more receptive to stronger regulation of handguns.
very
▪ Not only were they very receptive from a tactical viewpoint, they also kept their cool under pressure.
▪ He is always very receptive and is willing to share with you, to play out various scenarios.
▪ I was very receptive to the Bible, authority.
▪ People seem to be very receptive to the fact that I am a director from Hong Kong.
▪ And the fans in Scandanavia were very receptive.
■ NOUN
audience
▪ Indeed, Freemantle not only provided Leapor with a receptive audience for her mature work, but actively promoted it.
field
▪ The object that it is looking at will be many times larger than a single receptive field.
▪ It certainly seemed as if their brains got carried away when one type of receptive field was activated.
▪ That is to say, there is a way of positioning the grating relative to the receptive field centre that results in no response.
▪ The lower curve shows the light intensity at the centre of the receptive field as a sinusoidal grating drifts across it.
▪ The centre shows a map of the receptive field of a particular ganglion cell obtained using a stationary spot.
▪ Under the conditions that usually obtain in receptive field plotting studies one further distinction has been reported.
▪ What is usually found is cells with massive receptive fields with very non-specific receptive field properties.
mood
▪ The words and melodies of the hymns used during the day all helped to put me in a receptive mood.
▪ It is usually reserved for the grand finale, after the singing and preaching have induced a receptive mood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a receptive audience
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And what a pleasure to speak to such receptive minds!
▪ Being receptive and responding rapidly even to minor complaints is an indicator that the school cares.
▪ Few other places on earth would be so receptive to the use of performance measures.
▪ If anything, they seemed rather receptive to the idea of talking about invasion of the locality by monsters from deep space.
▪ If he implements it and things go well, he will be more receptive to employee input in the future.
▪ It is usually reserved for the grand finale, after the singing and preaching have induced a receptive mood.
▪ The crucial question here is what makes individuals receptive or resistant to racist ideas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Receptive

Receptive \Re*cep"tive\ (r[-e]*s[e^]p"t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]ceptif. See Receive.] Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
--Glanvill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
receptive

1540s, from Medieval Latin receptivus, from Latin recipere (see receive). Related: Receptivity.

Wiktionary
receptive

a. 1 capable of receiving something 2 ready to receive new ideas or concepts

WordNet
receptive
  1. adj. open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"

  2. ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" [ant: unreceptive]

  3. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: centripetal, sensory(a)]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "receptive".

However, she was a patient woman and she knew that as soon as Brewster managed to clear up whatever problem was presently occupying his attention, there would be a space of time, however short, in which he would be receptive to new ideas.

Lawyer Paravant rattled his ear anew, that the critical moment might find it open and receptive.

It might not technically be necessary to have an orgasm in order to become pregnant, but Claudia was secretly convinced that there was something about the deep, convulsive movement that rendered her womb particularly responsive and receptive to the act of procreation, the creation of a new life.

Antokolsky, the painter Repin, as well as Gartman, who were all receptive to his unschooled style of music, and more tolerant of his alcoholic ways, than the rather staid composers of St Petersburg.

Moreover, Germany had given the Turkish military Patriot antimissile interceptors, a move intended to protect the Turks against an Iraqi missile attack, but which the Bush administration hoped would make Ankara more receptive to the idea of opening a northern front.

But in a situation like this, Cirri could only hope that the man who had sent her such an appealing iDream would be as receptive to her fantasies as she was to his.

Reports emerged testifying to male dogs which, upon dosing with cocaine, became uncontrollably priapic, of bitches suddenly becoming receptive to amorous advances from all comers.

Though any male past puberty could mate with a receptive estrus female, bulls were far more successful when they were in musth.

As first kisses went, it was kind of a nonevent, but no noses ended up out of alignment, no teeth got cracked, and Kris seemed, if not enthusiastic, at least receptive.

Heterocephalus colony is too inbred, an occasional male becomes much heavier and is reluctant to mate, even when his own queen is in oestrus and receptive.

Without any preliminaries, he mounted her, finding her wet and receptive.

But the active power in the sacraments is conferred by the sacrament of order: while the passive or receptive power is conferred by the sacrament of Baptism.

Lando and Tendra were on their comlinks lauding the virtues of YVH war droids to suddenly receptive New Republic procurement officers.

Otto was a goodhearted man and had become fond of Baudolino because he found him receptive, capable of retaining in his memory everything he heard.

Muffy could not help but think of mice, whose females become fertile--they ovulate and become receptive to the male--when exposed to the pheromonic scent of male urine.