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unresponsive

Word definitions for unresponsive in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But his words fell on unresponsive ears. ▪ I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it - but I made it clear I wasn't interested. ▪ It is not that such agendas are unresponsive to data but they are not responsive ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not responsive; unreactive. 2 indifferent or apathetic; emotionless.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "unable to reply," from un- (1) "not" + responsive (adj.). Meaning "not responding" is from 1775. Related: Unresponsiveness .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not responsive [ant: responsive ] aloof or indifferent; "was unresponsive to her passionate advances" not susceptible to suggestion or influence not responsive; "a government unresponsive to their demands" not tending to react to stimulation [syn: ...

Usage examples of unresponsive.

The idea of returning to enter into daily competition with other underpaid, overdriven drudges striving fruitlessly to apply a dilute coating of culture to the unresponsive surface of unwilling students was abhorrent.

Further and frantic importuning of the cold and unresponsive wire presently was silenced by a new voice, little like that of Shaik Tsin.

Oncle Jazon babbled until satisfied that Beverley was unappreciative, or at least unresponsive.

His body was completely unresponsive as he looked back across the decades to see the diverted passenger train racing across Abadan station, trying to make up for time it had lost on StLincoln.

And then he had hurled himself overboard and, grabbing that fateful robe, had hauled it up until he was able to catch the Istrian woman by the arms, and though she had hung there, limp and unresponsive, he had somehow fought them both up through the water till his lungs were burning and ready to burst.

But that was the same kind of a question others asked about fauns and nymphs with trees: why did they bind themselves to such unresponsive plants?

Holding taking the brightest of their bright mages and sending them only unresponsive proxies in return.

The patient was described as agitated, confused, physically assaultive, and unresponsive to the psychiatrist's mental status evaluation.

Meanwhile his mother coddled and cuddled him secretly and unsystematically, secretly violated his father’s deprivations by contrabanding to him too much cookies and candy, yet all the while turned a cold and unresponsive back to any real or tacit plea for help in the father’s presence.

The so-called Omega Worm of the Mark XXV was intended to destroy the AI Core memory and volitional centers of any Bolo that became unresponsive to outside direction due to senility or battle damage.

She was standing alongside Edwards, among that unresponsive group, offering him a weak and pathetic smile.

His pupils were blown and his corneal and gag reflexes as well as ocular movement were all unresponsive.

In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli.

It was his own unresponsive flesh that held his attention, infuriating him.

She could not feel her limbs, but she could feel her heart beating, thudding heavily in her chest as adrenaline struggled uselessly with her unresponsive peripheral nervous system.