irresponsive

irresponsive

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ responsive.

Adjective

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, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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

unresponsive

Bulgarian: неотзивчив (bg) (neotzivčiv)