Reactive
adjective
Responding to change or other circumstances in a certain way.
My skin is very reactive, it turns red if I wash it too much.
Often appears as...
- reactive skin
- reactive measures
adjective
Taking action after something has occurred, rather than preventatively.
Our company needs a more proactive, not reactive, approach to safety.
Often appears as...
- reactive approach
- reactive stance
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Disapproving
adjective
In chemistry, reactive refers to a substance that reacts with many others.
Fluorine is a highly reactive gas.
Often appears as...
- reactive element
- highly reactive
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Formal
Technical
adjective
Responding to change or other circumstances in a certain way.
My skin is very reactive, it turns red if I wash it too much.
Often appears as...
- reactive skin
- reactive measures
adjective
Taking action after something has occurred, rather than preventatively.
Our company needs a more proactive, not reactive, approach to safety.
Often appears as...
- reactive approach
- reactive stance
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
In chemistry, reactive refers to a substance that reacts with many others.
Fluorine is a highly reactive gas.
Often appears as...
- reactive element
- highly reactive
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reaction
Reactive can emphasize an emotional response to stimuli, not just physical.
He's very reactive when criticized, getting defensive immediately.
Pro Tip 2/3Situation Dependent
Use 'reactive' to describe behavior influenced by specific situations or changes.
The reactive crowd calmed down once the concert started.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Reactive' can imply over-sensitivity or unpredictability in certain contexts.
Avoid labeling people as 'reactive' without understanding their perspective.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reaction
Reactive can emphasize an emotional response to stimuli, not just physical.
He's very reactive when criticized, getting defensive immediately.
Pro Tip 2/3Situation Dependent
Use 'reactive' to describe behavior influenced by specific situations or changes.
The reactive crowd calmed down once the concert started.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Reactive' can imply over-sensitivity or unpredictability in certain contexts.
Avoid labeling people as 'reactive' without understanding their perspective.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Reaction
Reactive can emphasize an emotional response to stimuli, not just physical.
He's very reactive when criticized, getting defensive immediately.
Pro Tip 2/3Situation Dependent
Use 'reactive' to describe behavior influenced by specific situations or changes.
The reactive crowd calmed down once the concert started.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
'Reactive' can imply over-sensitivity or unpredictability in certain contexts.
Avoid labeling people as 'reactive' without understanding their perspective.
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How Twitter needs to...
and not just all the mechanical stuff of finding and reporting them. So that's how we think about it. I'm curious to dig in more about what you said. I mean, I love that you said you are looking for ways to re-tweak the fundamental design of the system to discourage some of the reactive behavior, and perhaps --
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Your body language may...
But really, power is also about how you react to stress. So do you want the high-power leader that's dominant, high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.
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How we talk about sexual...
not the voices of journalists or commentators on social media. And that's why the story was news. We live in an incredibly interconnected world with the proliferation of social media, which is of course a fantastic resource for igniting social change. But it's also made us increasingly reactive,
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How friendship affects...
and motivates you to spend more time with them. Neuroimaging studies show that this region is highly reactive during your teenage years, which may explain why adolescents seem to place a higher value on social interactions than children or adults. Teenage friendships can also feel more intimate
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Why some people are more...
which is the opposite of psychopathy in terms of compassion and the desire to help other people, emerge from a brain that is also the opposite of psychopathy? A sort of antipsychopathic brain, better able to recognize other people's fear, an amygdala that's more reactive to this expression
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Depression, the secret...
depression, grief and sadness. Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief,
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Your body language...
leader that's dominant high on testosterone butts really stress reactive probably not right you want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant but not very stress reactive the person who's laid-back so we know
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Climate 101: Ozone...
reactive molecule called ozone which contains three oxygen atoms. Ozone is a trace gas in the atmosphere. There are only about three molecules for every 10 million molecules of air but it does a very important job.
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Turning chicken feathers...
for an afterburner chamber from girls that asked for way too many questions to designing a to reactive system everything started from wondering and friendship and never giving up so if a knight
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How to Bring Plants to...
we can respond to the behaviour of the plant in a sort of reactive way and it would be just like you were filming an animal
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How Twitter needs to...
and not just all the mechanical stuff of finding and reporting them. So that's how we think about it. I'm curious to dig in more about what you said. I mean, I love that you said you are looking for ways to re-tweak the fundamental design of the system to discourage some of the reactive behavior, and perhaps --
Video examples
Your body language may...
But really, power is also about how you react to stress. So do you want the high-power leader that's dominant, high on testosterone, but really stress reactive? Probably not, right? You want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who's laid back.
Video examples
How we talk about sexual...
not the voices of journalists or commentators on social media. And that's why the story was news. We live in an incredibly interconnected world with the proliferation of social media, which is of course a fantastic resource for igniting social change. But it's also made us increasingly reactive,
Video examples
How friendship affects...
and motivates you to spend more time with them. Neuroimaging studies show that this region is highly reactive during your teenage years, which may explain why adolescents seem to place a higher value on social interactions than children or adults. Teenage friendships can also feel more intimate
Video examples
Why some people are more...
which is the opposite of psychopathy in terms of compassion and the desire to help other people, emerge from a brain that is also the opposite of psychopathy? A sort of antipsychopathic brain, better able to recognize other people's fear, an amygdala that's more reactive to this expression
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
depression, grief and sadness. Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief,
Video examples
Your body language...
leader that's dominant high on testosterone butts really stress reactive probably not right you want the person who's powerful and assertive and dominant but not very stress reactive the person who's laid-back so we know
Video examples
Climate 101: Ozone...
reactive molecule called ozone which contains three oxygen atoms. Ozone is a trace gas in the atmosphere. There are only about three molecules for every 10 million molecules of air but it does a very important job.
Video examples
Turning chicken feathers...
for an afterburner chamber from girls that asked for way too many questions to designing a to reactive system everything started from wondering and friendship and never giving up so if a knight
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How to Bring Plants to...
we can respond to the behaviour of the plant in a sort of reactive way and it would be just like you were filming an animal
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Cherie Blair
British Lawyer
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
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Ian Ziering
American Actor
We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.
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Melissa Rosenberg
American Writer
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.
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Jos Buttler
English Athlete
In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.
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Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.
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Neal Patterson
American Businessman
We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
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Stephen Lang
American Actor
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
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Gerhard Herzberg
German Physicist
The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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Cherie Blair
British Lawyer
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
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Ian Ziering
American Actor
We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.
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Melissa Rosenberg
American Writer
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.
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Jos Buttler
English Athlete
In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.
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Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.
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Neal Patterson
American Businessman
We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
Quote examples
Stephen Lang
American Actor
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.
Quote examples
Gerhard Herzberg
German Physicist
The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
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