receptive
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
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Definition of receptive
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- Capable of receiving something.
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adj
- Capable of receiving something.
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Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
“receptive to the idea”
“The patient was receptive to her treatment”
“The owner drank cider at the Spotted Woodpigeon and talked pleasantly with the villagers, who, on learning that he had never even heard of the Surrey cattle-maimings, were at great pains to pour information and theories into his receptive ear.”
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Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
“When the delightful draught is quaffed and the winged beggar turns to leave, it is confronted with a straight and narrow way out, and before the open can be reached our bee must squeeze under a receptive stigma covered with sticky hairs which comb the pollen grains from the fuzzy back of the visitor.”
- 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.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval…
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Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive 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 doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipiō (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capiō (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)).
Words you can make from receptive
115 playable · top: PERCEIVE (15 pts)
Best play perceive 15 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
11 words5-letter words
27 words- CIVET 10 pts
- EVICT 10 pts
- PEEVE 10 pts
- VIPER 10 pts
- CREEP 9 pts
- CREPE 9 pts
- CREPT 9 pts
- CRIPE 9 pts
- PIECE 9 pts
- PRICE 9 pts
- EVERT 8 pts
- EVITE 8 pts
- REEVE 8 pts
- REIVE 8 pts
- REVET 8 pts
- RIVET 8 pts
- CITER 7 pts
- ERECT 7 pts
- PETER 7 pts
- RECIT 7 pts
- RECTI 7 pts
- TEPEE 7 pts
- TERCE 7 pts
- TRICE 7 pts
- TRIPE 7 pts
- EERIE 5 pts
- RETIE 5 pts
4-letter words
35 words- PERV 9 pts
- VEEP 9 pts
- VICE 9 pts
- CEPE 8 pts
- CRIP 8 pts
- EPIC 8 pts
- PERC 8 pts
- PICE 8 pts
- EVER 7 pts
- RIVE 7 pts
- VEER 7 pts
- VERT 7 pts
- VIER 7 pts
- CERE 6 pts
- CERT 6 pts
- CETE 6 pts
- CIRE 6 pts
- CITE 6 pts
- CRIT 6 pts
- EPEE 6 pts
- ETIC 6 pts
- PEER 6 pts
- PERE 6 pts
- PERI 6 pts
- PERT 6 pts
- PIER 6 pts
- PREE 6 pts
- RICE 6 pts
- RIPE 6 pts
- TRIP 6 pts
- RETE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TREE 4 pts
3-letter words
28 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
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