reactive

[ ree-ak-tiv ]

/ riˈæk tɪv /

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adjective

tending to react.

pertaining to or characterized by reaction.

Electricity. pertaining to or characterized by reactance.

Origin of reactive

First recorded in 1705–15; react + -ive

OTHER WORDS FROM reactive

re·ac·tive·ly, adverb re·ac·tive·ness, noun an·ti·re·ac·tive, adjective hy·per·re·ac·tive, adjective

non·re·ac·tive, adjective o·ver·re·ac·tive, adjective un·re·ac·tive, adjective

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These are reactive, not proactive, stances, and they do little to offer substantive solutions.

Men Need A Better Men’s Rights Movement |Nancy Kaffer |December 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The reality is something less proactive than reactive, not an initiative but a condition—a matter of identity.

America Is Coming to Terms with Its Racial Past—Let’s Look Ahead Instead |John McWhorter |May 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The commandos want a single garment made of "reactive" fibers that will allow heating and cooling as temperatures vary.

Special Ops’ Weapons Wish List |Michael Peck |April 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Magid wants loosen the ties that bind up Jewish life together in reactive formations.

Shaul Magid's Post-Ethnic Judaism |Zachary Braiterman |May 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Well, Republicans want to make Democrats fearful and jittery and reactive—appear to be accepting the Republican premise.

Reality Vs. 'Reality' |Michael Tomasky |October 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
No repeater is successful unless it is free from this reactive interference.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 |Kempster Miller
His kindnesses, delicately unobtrusive, yet frank and hearty, leave no reactive friction.

Oswald Langdon |Carson Jay Lee
I exclaimed, as the momently-arrested blood again shot through my heart with reactive violence, "can this be true?"

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 |Various
The audience was extraordinarily attentive and reactive—I never had an audience so keen to catch every point.

The Letters of William James, Vol. II |William James
There are no reactive changes in the synovial membrane, cellular tissue, or skin, nor is there any fever or disturbance of health.

Manual of Surgery |Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

British Dictionary definitions for reactive

reactive

/ (rɪˈæktɪv) /

adjective

readily partaking in chemical reactions sodium is a reactive metal; free radicals are very reactive

of, concerned with, or having a reactance

responsive to stimulus

(of mental illnesses) precipitated by an external cause reactive depression

Derived forms of reactive

reactively, adverb reactivity (ˌriːækˈtɪvɪtɪ) or reactiveness, noun

Medical definitions for reactive

reactive

[ rē-ăk′tĭv ]

adj.

Tending to be responsive or to react to a stimulus.

Characterized by reaction.

Tending to participate readily in chemical reactions.

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