receptive

About 3.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Capable of receiving something.
2. adjective Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

   receptive to the idea

3. adjective Ready for reproduction; fertile.
4. adjective Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.

   receptive fluency

5. adjective Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

Similar words

admissive acceptant acceptive hospitable sensory pervious afferent centripetal open to enabling

Often followed by

to fields field and language of audience mind mood

Word family

receptively receptiveness receptivenesses receptivities receptivity