Qualities
Synonyms for receptive
The synonym for receptive recorded in this bank is open, in the sense "ready or willing to receive favorably". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for receptive
- openadjective, in the sense "ready or willing to receive favorably"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day receptive is audited in a second meaning.
ready or willing to receive favorably
Receptive to the proposals.
The true synonym
open
Same sentence, swapped: Open to the proposals.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for receptive in the sentence quoted.
- sensory
- minded
- cooperative
Where receptive turns up in the game
receptive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where receptive is the trap
- sentientadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is animate, in the sense "endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness", so receptive is there to be ruled out.
Play receptive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so receptive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. receptive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.