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unreˈsponsive, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. Unable to reply.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 341 To render a man Vnresponsive, is to Confound, Poze, Puzzle, Non-plus.
2. Not responsive; irresponsive.
[1775Ash.] 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, The hand..turned cold within her grasp, and lay..unresponsive to her caresses. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xviii. 242 All now dull, pulseless, unresponsive as the insensate stone. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar i. iv, Hugh took the proffered hand with unresponsive coldness.
Hence unreˈsponsively adv., -ness.
1881E. F. Poynter Among the Hills II. 114 She divined the blank unresponsiveness with which her questions would be met. 1898‘Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxv. 266 Dorothy saw this in a glance, and her own face hardened unresponsively. |