reactive

The word “reactive” has 3 syllables: re-ac-tive

It's pronounced as /riˈæk.tɪv/


What is synonym and antonym for reactive?

In the thesaurus, “reactive” has 137 synonyms and 62 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for reactive along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for reactive

  • abrupt
  • acknowledging
  • active
  • acute
  • ad-lib
  • alive
  • answering
  • automatic
  • awake
  • aware
  • bleeding-heart
  • blind
  • bred-in-the-bone
  • casual
  • chance
  • chancy
  • cognizant
  • compassionate
  • conditioned
  • conscious
  • deep
  • deep-rooted
  • deep-seated
  • delicate
  • easily affected
  • emotionable
  • emotional
  • entrenched
  • extemporaneous
  • extempore
  • feeling
  • fine
  • forthcoming
  • haphazard
  • hasty
  • high-strung
  • hit-or-miss
  • hung up
  • hypersensitive
  • impetuous
  • impressible
  • impressionable
  • impromptu
  • improvised
  • impulsive
  • inadvertent
  • influenceable
  • instinctive
  • instinctual
  • intrenched
  • involuntary
  • irrepressible
  • irritable
  • keen
  • kindhearted
  • knee-jerk
  • knowing
  • mechanic
  • mechanical
  • mindless
  • natural
  • nervous
  • off-the-cuff
  • offhand
  • offhanded
  • open
  • oversensitive
  • passionate
  • pavlovian
  • perceiving
  • perceptive
  • persuadable
  • precarious
  • precise
  • psychic
  • quick
  • random
  • rash
  • ready
  • receptive
  • reflex
  • replying
  • respondent
  • responsive
  • robotic
  • rooted
  • seeing
  • sensatory
  • sensible
  • sensile
  • sensitive
  • sensorial
  • sensory
  • sentient
  • sharp
  • simple
  • snap
  • softhearted
  • spontaneous
  • spur-of-the-moment
  • subliminal
  • sudden
  • supersensitive
  • susceptible
  • susceptive
  • sympathetic
  • tender
  • tense
  • ticklish
  • touchy
  • touchy feely
  • tricky
  • tuned-in
  • turned on to
  • umbrageous
  • unconscious
  • unconsidered
  • uncontrollable
  • understanding
  • unforced
  • unintended
  • unintentional
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • unprepared
  • unprompted
  • unreasoned
  • unrehearsed
  • unstable
  • unstudied
  • unthinking
  • unwilling
  • unwitting
  • visceral
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • wired

Antonyms for reactive

  • advised
  • aforethought
  • calculated
  • calm
  • careful
  • conscious
  • considered
  • controllable
  • cultivated
  • deliberate
  • designed
  • farseeing
  • farsighted
  • forehanded
  • foreseeing
  • foresighted
  • forethoughtful
  • forward
  • forward-looking
  • heartless
  • ignorant
  • impassive
  • imprecise
  • indifferent
  • insensitive
  • intended
  • intentional
  • laid-back
  • loose
  • manageable
  • measured
  • merciless
  • meticulous
  • nonmechanical
  • numb
  • predetermined
  • prepared
  • prescient
  • proactive
  • projected
  • provident
  • reasoned
  • refined
  • rehearsed
  • resistible
  • senseless
  • strong
  • studied
  • thick-skinned
  • thoughtful
  • unaware
  • unconscious
  • unfeeling
  • unfriendly
  • unresponsive
  • unsusceptible
  • visionary
  • volitional
  • voluntary
  • wilful
  • willed
  • willful

Meanings of reactive

  • adjective
    1. That reacts or responds to a stimulus.
    2. That readily takes part in reactions.
    3. Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
    4. Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.

Example Sentences

  • The chemical is highly reactive when exposed to air.
  • His approach to problems is often reactive rather than proactive.
  • The patient had a reactive response to the allergy test.
  • She tends to be reactive under stress, which affects her decisions.
  • The material becomes reactive at high temperatures.

On this page you'll find 199 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to reactive, such as: abrupt, acknowledging, active, acute, ad-lib, advised, aforethought.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

acknowledging

  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • accepting
  • accession
  • accommodation
  • accord
  • accordance
  • acquiescent
  • active
  • adjustment
  • admission
  • admitting
  • affiliation
  • affinity
  • affirmatory
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • alive
  • alliance
  • allowance
  • allowing
  • amity
  • announcing
  • answering
  • apperception
  • appreciation
  • apprehending
  • approving
  • arbitration
  • arrangement
  • assenting
  • assimilation
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • avowing
  • awake
  • aware
  • awareness
  • bargaining
  • betraying
  • blabbing
  • bleeding-heart
  • breaking
  • breathing
  • broadcasting
  • chime
  • co
  • cognizance
  • communicating
  • compassionate
  • compatibility
  • compliance
  • complying
  • compromise
  • conceding
  • concert
  • concession
  • concord
  • concordance
  • concurring
  • confessing
  • confession
  • confirmative
  • confirmatory
  • confirming
  • conformity
  • congruity
  • conscious
  • consciousness
  • consenting
  • consistency
  • correspondence
  • corroborative
  • declaring
  • detection
  • disburdening
  • disclosing
  • discovery
  • divulging
  • double take
  • endorsing
  • exposing
  • favorable
  • forthcoming
  • giving away
  • granting
  • harmony
  • high sign
  • identifying
  • imparting
  • impressionable
  • influenceable
  • informing
  • kindhearted
  • leaking
  • mediation
  • memory
  • notice
  • noticing
  • open
  • passionate
  • perceiving
  • perception
  • perceptive
  • persuadable
  • positive
  • proclaiming
  • professing
  • publishing
  • ratifying
  • ratting
  • reactive
  • realization
  • recall
  • recalling
  • receptive
  • recognizance
  • recognizing
  • recollection
  • reconciliation
  • recurrence
  • remembering
  • remembrance
  • replying
  • respect
  • respondent
  • revealing
  • salute
  • saying
  • sensibility
  • sensible
  • sensile
  • sensitive
  • sentient
  • sharp
  • similarity
  • softhearted
  • spilling
  • squealing
  • suitableness
  • supporting
  • susceptible
  • susceptive
  • sympathetic
  • sympathy
  • talking
  • tattling
  • telling
  • tender
  • tumble
  • unburdening
  • understanding
  • union
  • unison
  • unloading
  • unveiling
  • verification
  • verifying
  • warm
  • warmhearted
  • warning
  • whispering
  • yielding

knee-jerk

  • abrupt
  • ad-lib
  • automatic
  • automatic response
  • blind
  • casual
  • chance
  • chancy
  • conditioned
  • expected
  • extemporaneous
  • extempore
  • haphazard
  • hasty
  • hit-or-miss
  • impetuous
  • impromptu
  • improvised
  • impulsive
  • inadvertent
  • instinctive
  • instinctual
  • involuntary
  • involuntary impulse
  • knee jerk reaction
  • mechanic
  • mechanical
  • mindless
  • natural
  • off-the-cuff
  • offhand
  • offhanded
  • patellar reflex
  • pavlovian
  • predictable
  • quadriceps reflex
  • quick
  • random
  • rash
  • reactive
  • ready
  • reflex
  • robotic
  • simple
  • snap
  • spontaneous
  • spur-of-the-moment
  • subliminal
  • sudden
  • unconscious
  • unconsidered
  • unforced
  • unintended
  • unintentional
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • unprepared
  • unprompted
  • unreasoned
  • unrehearsed
  • unstudied
  • unwilling
  • unwitting
  • visceral

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