receptive

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/

The English word “receptive” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

Capable of receiving something.
Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
Ready for reproduction; fertile.
Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

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”) + -īvus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to…

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