react
/ɹiːˈækt/
react verb: to act in response.
Verb
react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)
- To act in response.
- How did she react to the news?
- Synonyms:
- take
- To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
- 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.1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
- To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- 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.
- To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
- To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
Noun
react (plural reacts)
- An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
- Sad reacts only
react meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
react in Tamil
- எதிர்த்துச் செயல்படு
react in Urdu
- اثر کرنا, ردعمل کرنا
react in Bengali
- প্রতিক্রিয়া হিসেবে কাজ করা, সাড়া দেওয়া, দ্বিতীয়বার কাজ করা, সম্পাদন করা, পুনরায় করা, পুনরাভিনয় করা
react in Malayalam
- പ്രതികരിക്കുക, എതിരായി പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, രാസമാറ്റത്തിനു വിധേയമാകുക
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- react in Kannada
- ಮಾರೆಸಗು, ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯಿಸು, ಸ್ಪಂದಿಸು, ಪರಿಣಾಮವನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸು
Examples of react in a sentence
- Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
- If you subscribe to the MouseClick event, your application can react to the user clicking the mouse.
- Notwithstanding I was provoked, I ought not to have reacted so violently.
Synonyms of react
Forms of react
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | reacts |
| present participle | reacting |
| past participle | reacted |
| past | reacted |
| alternative form (rare) | reäct |
| Noun | |
| plural | reacts |
Origin of react
From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.
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Questions about react
- What does react mean?
- React means to act in response.
- What is react in Tamil?
- React in Tamil is எதிர்த்துச் செயல்படு. See React meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is react?
- React can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce react?
- React is pronounced /ɹiːˈækt/.
- What is the past tense of react?
- The past tense of react is reacted.
Words near react in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: react (page history and authors); react (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); react (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); react (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); react (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); react (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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