Reactive

Definitions: Reactive

Reactive

Adjective

1. (chemistry and physics) participating readily in reactions; "sodium is a reactive metal"; "free radicals are very reactive".

2. Tending to react to a stimulus; "the skin of the geriatric is less reactive than that of younger persons"- Louis Tuft.

Date "reactive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Reactive

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	Applying to an inductive or capacitive device or circuit. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Readily susceptible to chemical change. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Reactive

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
REACTIVE TELECOM	English	REsidential ACcess To Information Via Everyday TELECOMmunications tools	Computing, Information
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Antonym: unreactive (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Reactive

English words defined with "reactive": activated, aerofoil, airfoil, aldehyde, atomic number 15 ♦ bidirectional, blanket ♦ control surface ♦ excited ♦ P, phosphorus ♦ reactive depression, reactive schizophrenia ♦ surface ♦ unstable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reactive": Acetylcysteine, Alkylating Agents, anionic collector, Arthritis, Reactive ♦ bacterial leaching, Binding Sites, Bone Remodeling ♦ Child Reactive Disorders, conjugate impedance, CyberGlove ♦ Deadmen, Dithionitrobenzoic Acid, double bond, duct propulsion ♦ Enzyme Reactivators, epoxide ♦ Free Radicals ♦ gas assisted laser ♦ Hazardous Substance, Histrionic Personality Disorder, HIV Antibodies, HTLV-BLV Antibodies, HTLV-I Antibodies, HTLV-II Antibodies ♦ loaded symmetric pair, lung fibrosis ♦ microbial leaching ♦ Nansen bottle, nefroliet, Neutrophil Activation ♦ oscillatory circuit, ozone mini-hole ♦ Passivation, Plasma Spraying, Polycythemia Vera, POOLCO, POWER POOL, pretreatment ♦ Reactive Inhibition, reactive ion etching, reactive metal, reactive organic compounds, Reactive Oxygen Species, reactive power, reactive reagent, reactive silica, RT-CDL ♦ shunt-compensated transistor stage, Silanes, Superoxides ♦ Text Reckoning And Compiling, Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances, turbo-reactor ♦ vitreous carbon, Volatile Organic Compounds ♦ wattless current. (references)

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Modern Usage: Reactive

Domain	Usage
Clever	Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reactive

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Reactive Dyes and Their Preparations: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Reactive Approach to Comprehensive Global Garbage Detection (reference) Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management (reference) Geochemical Processes: Conceptual Models for Reactive Transport in Soil and Groundwater Research Report (reference) Handbook of reactive chemical hazards (reference) Nonlinear Pdes in Condensed Matter and Reactive Flows (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Reactive And Functional Polymers (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Best of Reactive [BOX SET] [IMPORT] (reference) Reactive 11 [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	WARRANTY 1YR REACTIVE SUPPORT (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reactive

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Associations with Alzheimer's disease, asthma, and reactive arthritis have been proposed. (references)
		What is not as readily apparent is the need for treatment of less severe or reactive depressions. (references)
		Antibodies reactive with one Ehrlichia species can be cross-reactive with other species of Ehrlichia. (references)
Business		Reactive dyes and sulphur dyes ranked second and third respectively. (references)
		The Indonesian market needs no additional supply of disperse dyes and reactive dyes up to the next three years. (references)
		PT. Lautan Luas Pewarna, which yields 184 tons of reactive dyes per annum, has focused its activities on the production of food dyestuff. (references)
Economic History	Estonia	The ECP remained stable in the early perestroika years and appeared strong at its 19th Congress in 1986. By 1988, however, the ECP's weakness had become clear when it was unable to assume more than a passive role and was relegated to a reactive position. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reactive

"Reactive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Reactive" is used about 425 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.53%	423	13,476
Noun (proper)	0.47%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	425	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Reactive

Expressions using "reactive": Child Reactive Disorders ♦ Reactive Airways ♦ Reactive Attachment Disorder ♦ reactive depression ♦ reactive energy ♦ Reactive Inhibition ♦ reactive ion etching ♦ reactive metal ♦ Reactive Oxygen Species ♦ reactive power ♦ reactive schizophrenia ♦ Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "reactive": non-reactive, over-reactive, tba-reactive.
	Containing "reactive": C-reactive protein.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reactive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
reactive attachment disorder	270
reactive airway disease	119
reactive hypoglycemia	86
reactive arthritis	56
reactive oxygen species	20
reactive dye	20
attachment reactive	19
reactive	19
airway reactive	18
reactive metal	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reactive

Language		Translations for "reactive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		reaktiv (Aerojet, jet, missile, reagent, test), reagues, që reagon në pezmatim. (various references)

Arabic		‏مفاعل (reactor), ‏متفاعل (interacting, interactive, reactant, reacting), ‏تفاعلي, ‏إرتكاسي (reflex), ‏رجعي (atavistic, die hard, fusty, reactionary, retroactive, retrograde). (various references)

Bulgarian		реактивен (rocket), реагиращ, обратен (back, backward, contrary, converse, counter, cross, inverse, inversive, obverse, opposite, reciprocal, retrograde, return, reverse, wrong), противодействуващ (antagonistic, counteractive). (various references)

Chinese		�"反�". (various references)

Czech		pùsobivý (appealing, catchy, compelling, effective, forceful, forcible, imposing, impressive, operative, potential, telling, workable). (various references)

Danish		reaktiv, blind (blind). (various references)

Dutch		reactief (reagent). (various references)

Farsi		واکنش دار (Respondent). (various references)

Finnish		reaktiivinen. (various references)

French		réactif (reactant, reacting, reagent). (various references)

German		reaktiv (reactively), rückwirkend (backdated, retroactive, retroactively, retrospective). (various references)

Greek		αντιδραστικόσ (reactionary), αντιδραστικός. (various references)

Hebrew		מ�'יב, ת�'ובתי. (various references)

Hungarian		visszaható (reflective, reflexive, retroactive), reagens (reactant, reagent, test). (various references)

Italian		reattivo (reagent, wattless). (various references)

Korean		반동 (Backlash, rebound, recoil, Recoiling). (various references)

Manx		ym-obbreeagh, freggyrtagh (accountable, answerable, answerer, answering, answering letter, compatible, congruence, fits, proportional, replicative, respondent, responsible), freggyragh (amenable, answerable, conformable, congruent, consonant, liable, responsive), frasseeagh (reactor), aawoalltaagh (reactionary). (various references)

Pig Latin		eactiveray.(various references)

Portuguese		reativo (jet), reationário, reactivo. (various references)

Romanian		reactiv (reagent, test). (various references)

Russian		реактивный (jet, jet-propelled, wattless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		reaktivan. (various references)

Spanish		reactivo (aerojet, reactant, reagent). (various references)

Swedish		reaktiv. (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งทำให้เกิ�"ปฏิกิริยา. (various references)

Turkish		tepkili (jet propelled, jet-prop), tepki gösteren, duyarlı (capable, delicate, emotional, feeling, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, liable, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned). (various references)

Turkmen		reaktiw (r). (various references)

Ukranian		реакційний (conservative, reactionary, reactionist, retrogressive, right wing), реактивний (jet, missile), реагуючий. (various references)

Vietnamese		tác động trở lại, ảnh hưởng trở lại. (various references)

Welsh		adweithiol. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reactive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reactive": reactively, reactiveness, reactivenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "reactive": hyperreactive, immunoreactive, nonreactive. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reactive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preactive, ractise, Reactivin, Reactivins, redactive, rescive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reactive"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reactive" (pronounced rēa"ktiv)
5	-a" k t i v	active, attractive, hyperactive, inactive, interactive, overactive, proactive, radioactive, refractive, retroactive, unattractive.
4	-k t i v	addictive, adjective, affective, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, perspective, photoconductive, predictive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, reconstructive, reflective, reproductive, respective, restrictive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unproductive, vindictive.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reactive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: creative.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-v"
	-2 letters: active, cerate, cerite, create, ecarte, recite, tierce, verite.
	-3 letters: aerie, aiver, areic, arete, avert, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, crate, crave, eater, erect, erica, evert, evict, evite, irate, react, reave, recta, recti, reive, retia, retie, revet, rivet, terai, terce, trace, trave, triac, trice, vatic, vicar, vitae.
	-4 letters: acre, airt, aver, care, cart, cate, cave, cere, cete, cire, cite, eave, etic, ever, race, rate, rave, rete, rice, rite, rive, tace, tare, tear, tier, tire, tree, vair, veer, vera, vert, vice, vier, vita.
	-5 letters: ace, act, air, ait, arc, are, art, ate, ave, car, cat, cee, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, eve, ice, ire, rat, rec, ree, rei, ret, rev, ria, tae, tar, tav, tea, tee, tic, tie, vac, var, vat, vee, vet, via, vie.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: accretive.
	+2 letters: cantilever, creatively, decorative, detractive, eviscerate, execrative, extractive, inveteracy, lacerative, overactive, reactivate, reactively, recitative, recreative, refractive, ulcerative, uncreative, veracities, vociferate.
	+3 letters: cantilevers, cooperative, correlative, decemvirate, declarative, eviscerated, eviscerates, extractives, hyperactive, interactive, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, predicative, prevaricate, procreative, reactivated, reactivates, recitatives, recultivate, reeducative, replicative, retroactive, revaccinate, revictualed, transceiver, underactive, vermiculate, vociferated, vociferates, vorticellae.
	+4 letters: accelerative, advertencies, anticreative, apperceptive, appreciative, cantilevered, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, cooperatives, correlatives, creativeness, creativities, czarevitches, decemvirates, decoratively, depreciative, detractively, eviscerating, evisceration, extractively, hyperactives, inadvertence, inadvertency, inveteracies, overemphatic, overmedicate, overreacting, overreaction, perspectival, prevaricated, prevaricates, putrefactive, reactiveness, reactivities, recultivated, recultivates, recuperative, refractively, renunciative, revaccinated, revaccinates, revictualled, transceivers, vermiculated, verticalness, verticillate.
	+5 letters: cantilevering, commemorative, commiserative, concentrative, confederative, conservatives, conservatized, conservatizes, conservatoire, contraceptive, convertiplane, cooperatively, correlatively, counteractive, countervailed, declaratively, eviscerations, hyperreactive, inadvertences, interactively, lucrativeness, ovariectomies, overcautioned, overeducating, overeducation, overmedicated, overmedicates, overreactions, precipitative, predicatively, reciprocative, recriminative, reduplicative, resuscitative, retroactively, ultraviolence, uncooperative, valedictories, verticalities, viceroyalties.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.