Definition of “receptive”

But the good thing is that he is willing to learn and is receptive to ideas.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said last night: "As people become more familiar they are likely to be more receptive.

I suddenly discovered people were more receptive to me and I was far more receptive to others.

Nor were the courts receptive to attempts to pawn off responsibility on the defence.

Organised by London's Hayward Gallery, it is evidence, many believe, that the city is now receptive to contemporary art.

Students never properly learn how to place their minds into a receptive Skill-state without these herbs.

Then let's have another drink, just to put you in a receptive frame of mind.

`I've told you how it is, he thinks people under twenty are more receptive.

or new element to the work - something which the artist believes you should always remain receptive to.