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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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The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.† (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 probably wasn't in a very receptive mood.† (source)receptive = open to arguments, ideas, or change
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His mother was a microbiologist: it had been her job to study the proteins of the bioforms unhealthy to pigoons, and to modify their receptors in such a way that they could not bond with the receptors on pigoon cells, or else to develop drugs that would act as blockers.† (source)
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Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.† (source)
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I'm pretty sure I'd recognize the ingredients of a known brain-receptor drug.† (source)
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He was, my mother knew, quite unreceptive on the subject of Gravesend Academy.† (source)unreceptive = not open to arguments, ideas, or changestandard 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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I waited, receptively, for further information, but none came.† (source)receptively = in a manner that is open to arguments, ideas, or change
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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)unreceptivity = not in a manner that is open to arguments, ideas, or changestandard 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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As a consequence the troopers were swamped with calls from people claiming to know the hiker's identity, so they were even less receptive to Westerberg than they had been to Gallien.† (source)receptive = open to arguments, ideas, or change
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You don't have scent receptors.† (source)
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