Unresponsive
[ʌnrɪ'spɒnsɪv] or [,ʌnrɪ'spɑnsɪv]
Definition
(adj.) not responding to some influence or stimulus .
(adj.) not susceptible to suggestion or influence .
(adj.) aloof or indifferent; 'was unresponsive to her passionate advances' .
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Examples
- There was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We do not hear of his smacking the faces or wringing the wrists of recalcitrant or unresponsive disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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