Reactive Listening

The art of trying to appear to be listening to someone, but just reacting to the last thing they said in an agreeing manner.

I was talking to my buddy Bob about my daily grind with work, and my wife making a big deal about the "hassle" taking our daughter to Disney Land.

He replied with "Yeah, Disney Land can be pretty stressful." ... He totally missed my point, typical Reactive Listening!

Antonym: Active Listening

by Kuhnaydeein June 30, 2014

Reactive laziness

Otherwise known as LAZY fucker Syndrome or RL

When you tell some one that there going out and they bitch and moan till you get them a cab and make sure they dont have to put much effort in.

Reactive laziness examples:

Me - Yo m8 its your turn to cook.
RL - "fuck that i will call a takeaway"

Me - come on its to go to the pub
RL - Aww i cant be arsed lets get a cab
Me - but its only 2 streets away
RL - "SO? if no cab then i aint going"

by Darkhorsevru July 12, 2011

reactive acne

If someone injures themself (in this case, typically a burn from carpet, grass or perhaps trampoline) and your body reacts to it in a bad way, you can get reactive acne. It’s a type of acne that spreads like a rash along your legs or arms (depending where you had the injury). If you see a case of reactive acne appearing anywhere else on your body, it is NOT normal. Please go see a doctor, or make sure it’s definitely reactive acne first.

Reanna fell on the trampoline and scraped her knee. Therefore, reactive acne spread across all her legs.

by alvssandra April 16, 2022

reactive attachment disorder

What can happen when you basically neglect you child's social/emotional needs. They develop this mental illness and become extremely insecure, immature and problematic, and get a really low self-esteem. If not treated, they can self-harm and become manchildren with an inferiority complex and constantly tantrum like a severely autistic child, and the disorder becomes very hard or just impossible to cure.

I regret neglecting my daughter. She developed this "reactive attachment disorder" and she had to be put in foster care because she went crazy.

by PorcupineCanadian December 30, 2016

Reactive Index

Reactive index is the correlation of sensory stimuli experienced and its corresponding physiological and physical response or reaction, by any living being. Reactive index will be used to understand the relationship between brain, body, and their functions, thus assess, predict, and alter abilities and behavior exhibited by living beings.

We are looking for people with high Reactive Index.

by jignesh talasila April 21, 2018

Russian Reactive Armour

It's a passive self-protection system for the battle tanks, especially against kinetic energy penetrators and shaped charges. It is used wolrdwide, although the Russian system differs slightly.

The Russian reactive armour consists of Ukrainian washing machines and toilets while they're liberating their neighboring country from Nazis.

by O. W. Tongueincheek March 23, 2023

Explosive reactive armour

Initially designed to strengthen tanks, a reactive armour, that explodes when hit by either kinetic energy or high explosive antitank (HEAT) projectiles, disrupting the round, and degrading its penetration. Explosive reactive armour is most effective against HEAT rounds.

The new Russian Kontakt-5 ERA is not completely destroyed when hit - it still functions as armour after exploding.

Anti-tank weapons work by piercing the armour and exploding inside, thus killing the crew.

Explosive reactive armour counteracts the force of the explosion by creating another explosion on itself. Against shaped charged missiles, this type of armour really comes into it's own.

The design was patented by Manfred Held in the 1970's.

ERA will save the lives of the crew and allow the tank to fight another day.

by Gumba Gumba April 13, 2004