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responsively

responsively

4.5
In a way that quickly adapts to different screen sizes
  • adverb
  • /rɪˈspɑːnsɪvli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : de manera responsiva
  • In our design process, we choose materials that respond responsively to temperature changes.

Examples

  • According to Sacconi, the desired sound emerged in the building: he argued that one of Stradivari's great insights was to build unusually thin components for his instruments' backs, bellies, and ribs that could vibrate freely, rapidly, responsively.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Fortunately, once you're there, things move swiftly and responsively, especially in areas where Nintendo has been famously sub-par, such as anything that involves an Internet connection.

    Blog text (28)
  • In order to graduate and be eligible for certification, teacher candidates must have demonstrated that they can teach responsively and effectively by the end of their student teaching experience.

    Academic text (2012)
  • So we've got a situation where the controller can responsively see a packet where it doesn't know a rule and give the switch a new rule.

  • This shift suggests that curriculum planning occurs in cycles throughout the educational experience as the teacher responsively modifies and adjusts the curriculum to support and extend students' thinking in new directions.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Advertising may not be a technique (as Matt Wilcox suggested), but advertising isn't always bad or ugly (and often necessary), and it certainly could be called a technique to design for it responsively.

    Blog text (27)
  • Building with percentages and em's allows us to "accept the ebb and flow" and build with leeway in mind, so why don't we set the "breakpoint" at what would be accepted as just above the largest average screen size, build responsively, and it will suit all within that tolerance.

    Blog text (27)
  • The application updated responsively to user inputs, ensuring a smooth experience.

  • The website loaded responsively, adjusting its layout to fit different screen sizes seamlessly.

Synonyms

flexibly
vsresponsively
2 3.7

In a way that changes or adapts easily to different situations

prioritizes fast, appropriate reaction rather than general versatility
adaptively
vsresponsively
1 5.3

In a way that changes to fit new conditions

acts quickly and appropriately to changes and needs
reactively
vsresponsively
1 5.3

In a way that responds to events after they happen instead of before

acts quickly and appropriately instead of waiting for events to happen

Antonyms

Without reacting to someone or something

How Responsive

immediately
1.0
promptly
98 2.1
responsively
  • Specialized
4.5
reactively
1 5.3
slowly
1.0

Surface Forms

responsively positive
responsiverly comparative
responsivestly superlative

Morphology

responsively = responsive (transparent) = respond + ive + ly

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'responsive' by adding '-ly', and the adjective is transparently derived from the verb 'respond' with the productive suffix '-ive'.

Etymology

Responsively comes from respond, which means 'to answer'. So when a website or app adjusts responsively, it 'answers' the screen by changing its layout to fit different sizes, which is why it reacts to changes in devices.