irresponsive

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English

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Etymology

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From ir- +‎ responsive.

Adjective

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irresponsive (comparative more irresponsive, superlative most irresponsive)

  1. 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.

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