irresponsive
English edit
Etymology edit
From ir- + responsive.
Adjective edit
irresponsive (comparative more irresponsive, superlative most irresponsive)
- That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
- The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […]
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 27:
- 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.
- 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 31:
- 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.
Translations edit
unresponsive
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