Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Responsive has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
containing or using responses; alternating
"responsive reading"
"antiphonal laughter"
readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion
"children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience"
reacting to a stimulus
"the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons"
answering, replying or responding
"She was very responsive to every question I asked during the interview."
In plain English: Responsive means reacting quickly and appropriately to what someone else says or does.
"The customer service team was very responsive to our questions and solved the problem quickly."
The word responsive entered English from Middle French and ultimately from Late Latin. It originally described something that was given as an answer or reply before taking on its modern sense of reacting quickly to stimuli.