react

react is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
4. verb. undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions

   "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

5. verb. show a response or a reaction to something

   Synonyms: respond

6. verb. act against or in opposition to

   "She reacts negatively to everything I say"

   Synonyms: oppose

Synonyms

respond, oppose

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in react:

caret, carte, cater, cerat, crate, creat, creta, ecart, recta, trace

Common word forms

reacts, reacted, reacting

Words from these letters

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