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US
/ˌənɹiˈspɑnsɪv/
]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹɪspˈɒnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹɪspˈɒnsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not susceptible to suggestion or influence
- not responding to some influence or stimulus
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aloof or indifferent
was unresponsive to her passionate advances
How To Use unresponsive In A Sentence
- whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
- The latter acts as a very slow brake, or a very unresponsive gas pedal on the economy.
- It is uninventive, unresponsive, unintelligent, uninformed, and unmotivated to succeed.
- He was totally unresponsive to the pressing social and economic needs of the majority of the population.
- The company found itself employing increasingly unresponsive and at times surly sales staff and poor in-store managers. Times, Sunday Times
- He was on morphine, and not himself - unresponsive to stimuli, and seemingly in pain.
- All wheat parameters we studied were unresponsive to blue light, so comparisons between relative and absolute blue light responses are not meaningful.
- Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, which kills western corn rootworm larvae, is relatively unresponsive to an alarm signal ((E) - beta-caryophyllene, which is released by the infested roots) Turlings has successfully improve H. bacteriophora's response to caryophyllene by selective breeding of the nematodes. RedOrbit News - Technology
- Desires are resilient, in this sense, when they are unresponsive to the agent's own deliberative reflection.
- Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, which kills western corn rootworm larvae, is relatively unresponsive to an alarm signal ((E) - beta-caryophyllene, which is released by the infested roots) Turlings has successfully improve EurekAlert! - Breaking News