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Definition of unresponsive in English: unresponsiveadjective ʌnrɪˈspɒnsɪvˌənrəˈspɑnsɪv Not responsive. these symptoms may be unresponsive to conventional treatment Example sentencesExamples - She found him lying on his back, rigid and unresponsive, with blue lips and apparently not breathing.
- He was on morphine, and not himself - unresponsive to stimuli, and seemingly in pain.
- Where demand is relatively unresponsive to price changes, demand is said to be inelastic with respect to price.
- The only time I've seen them look more glum is when they attempted to gee up an unresponsive crowd while supporting Travis earlier this year.
- The beloved will never grow tired and grumpy, unresponsive and older, but will always be perfect.
- In the current circumstances, this is an astonishingly bold, not to say unresponsive, strategy.
- But he is understood to have been unresponsive to most of the letters and calls.
- Those of us who use council services know how slow they are to catch up with modern standards of customer service and how unresponsive they can be.
- The latter acts as a very slow brake, or a very unresponsive gas pedal on the economy.
- The controls are sluggish and unresponsive, which when you're trying to pull off a series of trick moves is just unforgivable.
- Wearing sunglasses, and with a baseball cap pulled low over his face, he was almost as unresponsive as his coach on Friday.
- Large companies are slow, bureaucratic, unresponsive and ineffective.
- Her condition worsened, she became unresponsive and the bruising spread further down her face.
- The crowd were utterly unresponsive, in fact most got up and walked away.
- I'm not the only one dealing with bullies and an unresponsive school system.
- When songwriting, he feels he undergoes some sort of chemical change which makes him detached and unresponsive once outside the office.
- He would be normal on some days, and other days, completely unresponsive and moody.
- This may be a sign that it has fared better than its peers, or equally it could just mean that the company is set in its ways and unresponsive to market conditions.
- She suffered from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and was largely unresponsive and he knew she could put up no resistance.
- The shocked driver saw Patrick was unconscious and unresponsive and another motorist dialled 999.
Synonyms sullen, sulky, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsmiling, humourless, uncommunicative, taciturn, unsociable, scowling, glowering, ill-humoured, sombre, sober, saturnine, pessimistic, lugubrious, eeyorish, mournful, melancholy, melancholic, doleful, miserable, dismal, depressed, dejected, despondent, downcast, unhappy, low-spirited, in low spirits, low, with a long face, blue, down, fed up, grumpy, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, testy, snappish, peevish, crusty, waspish
Derivatives adverb Midnight struck, and I was somehow still alone, as they dozed at my side unresponsively. Example sentencesExamples - Falcons only fly when they are hungry. When they are fed up they just sit unresponsively until they have digested their meal.
- But when Matthew simply stood there unresponsively, she pursed her lips together and gently led him to the nearest chair.
- He shrugged unresponsively, which I knew was his way of meaning yes without saying so.
- Normally, such counter pointed laser light beams would just unresponsively pass through each other, Gauthier said.
noun If your child shows signs of dehydration (drowsiness, passing little urine, few or no wet nappies, a dry mouth and tongue, unresponsiveness, or glazed eyes) you should call your GP urgently. Example sentencesExamples - Until now, tests have only been carried out when parents have become concerned at their child's unresponsiveness - by which time the damage could already have been done
- Then it happened, and our tepid prehistory was, quite literally, forgotten beyond a lingering embarrassment at my own callow unresponsiveness.
- While offering no apologies for the Mail's unresponsiveness, it does have to be accepted that reporting the exceptional rather than the commonplace is one of the elements of news journalism.
- First, the excessive concentration of arbitrary powers, inclusive of the supervision of the police, in the hands of appointed sub-sovereigns with no local roots contributed to unresponsiveness and inertia.
Definition of unresponsive in US English: unresponsiveadjectiveˌənrəˈspänsivˌənrəˈspɑnsɪv Not responsive. these symptoms may be unresponsive to conventional treatment Example sentencesExamples - She found him lying on his back, rigid and unresponsive, with blue lips and apparently not breathing.
- The controls are sluggish and unresponsive, which when you're trying to pull off a series of trick moves is just unforgivable.
- The beloved will never grow tired and grumpy, unresponsive and older, but will always be perfect.
- The only time I've seen them look more glum is when they attempted to gee up an unresponsive crowd while supporting Travis earlier this year.
- Where demand is relatively unresponsive to price changes, demand is said to be inelastic with respect to price.
- Those of us who use council services know how slow they are to catch up with modern standards of customer service and how unresponsive they can be.
- He was on morphine, and not himself - unresponsive to stimuli, and seemingly in pain.
- Her condition worsened, she became unresponsive and the bruising spread further down her face.
- But he is understood to have been unresponsive to most of the letters and calls.
- He would be normal on some days, and other days, completely unresponsive and moody.
- The crowd were utterly unresponsive, in fact most got up and walked away.
- The shocked driver saw Patrick was unconscious and unresponsive and another motorist dialled 999.
- The latter acts as a very slow brake, or a very unresponsive gas pedal on the economy.
- I'm not the only one dealing with bullies and an unresponsive school system.
- When songwriting, he feels he undergoes some sort of chemical change which makes him detached and unresponsive once outside the office.
- Wearing sunglasses, and with a baseball cap pulled low over his face, he was almost as unresponsive as his coach on Friday.
- Large companies are slow, bureaucratic, unresponsive and ineffective.
- This may be a sign that it has fared better than its peers, or equally it could just mean that the company is set in its ways and unresponsive to market conditions.
- In the current circumstances, this is an astonishingly bold, not to say unresponsive, strategy.
- She suffered from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and was largely unresponsive and he knew she could put up no resistance.
Synonyms sullen, sulky, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsmiling, humourless, uncommunicative, taciturn, unsociable, scowling, glowering, ill-humoured, sombre, sober, saturnine, pessimistic, lugubrious, eeyorish, mournful, melancholy, melancholic, doleful, miserable, dismal, depressed, dejected, despondent, downcast, unhappy, low-spirited, in low spirits, low, with a long face, blue, down, fed up, grumpy, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, testy, snappish, peevish, crusty, waspish
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