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UNRESPONSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not responding to some influence or stimulus
Classified under:
Similar:
refractory (temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus)
Also:
insensitive (not responsive to physical stimuli)
insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)
Antonym:
responsive (readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion)
Derivation:
unresponsiveness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not susceptible to suggestion or influence
Classified under:
Similar:
insusceptible; unsusceptible (not susceptible to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Aloof or indifferent
Example:
was unresponsive to her passionate advances
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)
Derivation:
unresponsiveness (the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events)
