react

Speech parts

1. react - Noun

2. react - Verb

Meaning

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

respond oppose act answer counter reply behave acknowledge rejoin retaliate retort responding conduct oneself echo take
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Antonyms

receive operate relinquish horse around proact faff around
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Hypernyms

move turn act change state

Hyponyms

marvel buck accept decline answer respond

Phrases with the word

react disproportionately ability to react capacity to react react toward able to react quick react force

Anagrams

caret carte cater crate creat trace recta acter Certa

Examples

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. William Osler

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw

Dangers await only those who do not react to life. Mikhail Gorbachev

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Ellen Glasgow

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. Sachin Tendulkar

Close letter words and terms

reacquirer reacquisition reacquite react disproportionately react toward reactability