Responsive vs Respond - What's the difference?
responsive | respond |
Answering, replying or responding.
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
Using antiphons; antiphonal.
Susceptible to the feelings of others.
(obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) responsible
(intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
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(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
* Fairfax
To satisfy; to answer.
A response.
A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
Respond is a derived term of responsive.
As an adjective responsive
is answering, replying or responding.As a verb respond is
to say something in return; to answer; to reply.As a noun respond is
a response.responsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Antonyms
* nonresponsive * unresponsiveDerived terms
* responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----respond
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Verb
(en verb)- to respond to a question or an argument
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- For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
- The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.