Antonyms for reactive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ree-ak-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : riˈæk tɪv

Definition of reactive

Origin : 1712, from react + -ive. Related: Reactively; reactiveness; reactivity.

As in responsive : adj quick to react
As in sensitive : adj impressionable
As in susceptive : adj sensitive

Example sentences :

They rise and fall together; they are reactive, one upon the other.
Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy

Succedaneum for Chrysarobin; very active reducer or "reactive."
Extract from : « Merck's 1899 Manual » by Merck & Co.

The bandolero was languishing in the third reactive stage of malignant cholera.
Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey

But they had been replaced by an uncontrollable, reactive nausea.
Extract from : « Spillthrough » by Daniel F. Galouye

But there are many possible tracer rays not reactive to a screen such as I was using.
Extract from : « Skylark Three » by Edward Elmer Smith

The receptive side of his nature is neither sensitive nor intuitive, nor is his reactive side productive or creative.
Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins

The audience was extraordinarily attentive and reactive—I never had an audience so keen to catch every point.
Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James

Aiming it toward the stars, opposite earth, its reactive blasts shoved me Earthward, thanks to Newton.
Extract from : « Shipwreck in the Sky » by Eando Binder

There was no reactive motion indicative of life in the whale, nor any progress towards its withdrawal, if dead.
Extract from : « Memorials of the Sea » by William Scoresby

No repeater is successful unless it is free from this reactive interference.
Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 » by Kempster Miller

Synonyms for reactive

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