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Responsive vs Underresponsive - What's the difference?

responsive | underresponsive |

As adjectives the difference between responsive and underresponsive

is that responsive is answering, replying or responding while underresponsive is insufficiently responsive.

responsive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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
    • The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
  • (obsolete) responsible
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Antonyms

    * nonresponsive * unresponsive

    Derived terms

    * responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----

    underresponsive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Insufficiently responsive.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 28, author=Nina Bernstein, title=Another Detention Death, and Mounting Questions, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Piedmont is a facility that was understaffed and underresponsive to clear medical needs,” Mr. Jawetz said. }}

    Related terms

    * underresponsiveness