react
/ɹiːˈækt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
Intransitive verb
verb
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
Intransitive verb
verb
To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "How did she react to the news?"
- "It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him."
- "Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state."
- "Sad reacts only"