receptive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite open to arguments, ideas, or change
    • receptive to reason and the logic of facts
  2. adjective ready or willing to receive favorably
    open.
    • receptive to the proposals
  3. adjective satellite of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
    centripetal; sensory.
    • sensory neurons
  4. adjective satellite able to absorb liquid (not repellent)
    • the paper is ink-receptive

WordNet

Re*cep"tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. réceptif. See Receive.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913