react
Plural: reacts
Verb
Verb Forms: reacted, reacting, reacts
- To respond or behave in a particular way to a stimulus or situation.
- show a response or a reaction to something
- act against or in opposition to
- "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
- "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"
- To act in response.
- To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
- To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- 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
- An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
Examples
- Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
- How did she react to the news?
- My opponent didn’t even REACT when I played ZAX, clearly unaware of its high-scoring potential.
- Sad reacts only
Origin / Etymology
From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.
Scrabble Score: 7
react: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordreact: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
react: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
react: valid Words With Friends Word