unanswering
English
Etymology
un- + answering
Adjective
unanswering (not comparable)
- Giving no answer; unresponsive.
- 1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts:
- Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her.
- 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo:
- He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.
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