Sample Sentences forreceptive (editor-reviewed)
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She was receptive to feedback and made changes to improve her project.receptive = open to suggestions
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I'd like to give the speech to some receptive audiences before I try an audience that is more hostile to my proposals.receptive = open and supportive
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She was not very receptive to advice, believing he already knew the best course of action.receptive = open to suggestions
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The male alligator had spent days in early spring lying beside the female in a mating pair, blowing bubbles on her checks and providing her with other signs of masculine attention designed to bring her to receptivity, (source)receptivity = open to being approached (in this case, for mating)
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He probably wasn't in a very receptive mood.† (source)
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Amburgh, though, seemed relaxed and sufficiently receptive.† (source)
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The attitudes I had tried were obvious—receptive to conception, then protective.† (source)
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The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.† (source)
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Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.† (source)
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They were attacking the cancer with a new cocktail: two chemo drugs and a protein receptor that they hoped would turn off the oncogene in Gus's cancer.† (source)
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He was, my mother knew, quite unreceptive on the subject of Gravesend Academy.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptive means not and reverses the meaning of receptive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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She settled down receptively.† (source)
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Blindness to life, secession, unreceptivity, a dull wall of anxious, overprotected flesh, ignorant of the subtlety of God or Nature and unfeeling toward its beauty.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreceptivity means not and reverses the meaning of receptivity. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I stopped here, letting the words take shape and sequence, my hand around Donna's ankle, and I sensed a certain receptiveness, a thing I needed to beat back the incongruity.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And I take it the bankers in New York weren't receptive to your cash flow problems?† (source)
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My nerves have been shut down or the pain receptors in my brain turned off.† (source)
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