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irresponsive

adj

Etymology

From ir- + responsive.

  1. derived from responsivus
  2. derived from responsif
  3. prefixed as irresponsive — “in + responsive”

Definitions

  1. That does not respond to stimuli

    That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.

    • The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […]
    • At dawn some weeks back it had creaked across the plain, and at a point where the scrub curved, the husband had stopped the horse while the woman parted the tilt and waved goodbye to the bent, irresponsive old man and his dog.
    • I had seen him once in that brown coat; I touched its sleeve, but it was limp and irresponsive to that faint call of memory.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA