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Definition: Unresponsive |
UnresponsiveAdjective1. Not responsive. 2. Aloof or indifferent; "was unresponsive to her passionate advances". 3. Not susceptible to suggestion. 4. Not responsive; "a government unresponsive to their demands". 5. Not tending to react to stimulation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unresponsive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonym: UnresponsiveSynonym: unreactive (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: responsive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unresponsive |
| English words defined with "unresponsive": cold, cool ♦ dead ♦ frigid ♦ insensible ♦ numb ♦ senseless ♦ unresponsiveness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unresponsive": Testicular Feminization. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Patient was alert and unresponsive. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The last day of leap year : "Dear me! he's so unresponsive!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Drug treatments are being evaluated for unresponsive celiac disease. (references) | |
In fact, IBM is often diagnosed in cases of polymyositis that are unresponsive to therapy. (references) | ||
Systemic infection usually presents as fever and chills unresponsive to antibacterial therapy. (references) | ||
Economic History | Haiti | The legal system is inadequate, unresponsive, and slow. (references) |
Burma | Thus the GOB has been largely unresponsive to the concerns of foreign investors, local businesses and the needs of the populace. (references) | |
Egypt | Red tape remains a business impediment in Egypt, including a multiplicity of regulations and regulatory agencies, delays in clearing goods through customs, arbitrary decision-making, high market entry transaction costs, and a generally unresponsive commercial court system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | Government officials were generally uncooperative and unresponsive to their views. (references) |
Slovak Republic | Some NGO leaders continued to allege that the Government at times is unresponsive to their requests. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The Government usually was unresponsive to the concerns of NGO's and rarely consulted with them during the year. (references) | |
Political Economy | Albania | Additional issues affecting business include the substandard transportation and energy infrastructures that inflate production and distribution costs, an ineffective and unresponsive judiciary, and high taxes relative to the level of services provided by the government. (references) |
Yugoslavia | During the year, the Serbian Government transferred indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic and several other indictees to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and provided access to some archives; however, the Government was at times unresponsive to the ICTY's requests for arrests and for information. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Oman | Foreign women employed as domestic servants and garment workers have claimed that their employers have withheld their salaries and that government officials have been unresponsive to their grievances, due to investigative procedures that disadvantage the victim. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unresponsive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unresponsive" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 109 | 31,132 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unresponsive": be unresponsive ♦ be unresponsive to. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
down slow unresponsive window xp | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unresponsive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që nuk reagon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | студен (algid, asepsis, bleak, bloodless, cold, cool, dead, frigid, frosted, frosty, gelid, iced, icy, impassive, inhuman, raw, repulsive, stony, unapproachable, undersexed, unloving, winterly, wintry), несъчувствен, неотзивчив (deaf, impenetrable, impervious, insensate, insensible, irresponsive, un-co-operative, unhelpful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "复. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pasivní (passive), nevstřícný (unapproachable), necitlivý (dead, insensible, insensitive, thick-skinned, unfeeling, unsusceptible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بی مسلولیت , بی توجه (Inattentive, Oblivious, Unconsidered, Unwitting), بی علاقه (Nonchalant, Uninterested), بدون احتیاط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui ne réagit pas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unempfänglich (dull, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, unfeeling, unreceivable, unreceptive, unsusceptible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απαθήσ (apathetic, cool, dispassionate, impassible, impassive, passionless, stolid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hûvös (chill, chilly, coldish, cool, Parky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esponsiveunray que não responde, que não reage, pouco sensível (thick-skinned), insensível (blind, callous, chill, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint-hearted, flinty, frozen, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unfeeling, unsusceptible, unsympathetic), indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil-may-care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassible, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligent, nonchalant, passive, pococurante, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry). (various references) не реагирующий. (various references) koji ne uzvraća, koji ne odgovara (irresponsive, maladjusted). (various references) no responsivo, insensible (bloodless, cold-hearted, heartless, imperceptible, impervious, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, pachyderm, pachydermatous, regardless, thick-skinned, unfeeling). (various references) okänslig (callous, dead, dull, immune, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, refractory, unfeeling), oemottaglig (dead, immune, impervious, insusceptible). (various references) tepkisiz, ihtiyacı karşılamayan. (various references) що не реагу", несприйнятливий (insusceptible, irresponsive, refractory), нечуйний. (various references) l nh đạm (unsympathetic, untouched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "unresponsive": unresponsively, unresponsiveness, unresponsivenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unresponsive" (pronounced u'nrēspÄ"nsiv) |
| 7 | -s p Ä" n s i v | nonresponsive, responsive. |
| 4 | -n s i v | apprehensive, comprehensive, counteroffensive, defensive, expansive, expensive, extensive, hypertensive, inexpensive, inoffensive, offensive, pensive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, decisive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, explosive, expressive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, inclusive, inconclusive, indecisive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, obsessive, obtrusive, oppressive, passive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: pensioners, responsive, unripeness. | |
-3 letters: eversions, inverness, isoprenes, nerviness, overissue, overspins, pensioner, pensiones, preunions, proneness, souvenirs, supervise, universes, unpersons. | |
-4 letters: enuresis, environs, erepsins, espouser, eversion, innerves, inverses, ironness, isoprene, nervines, neurines, neurones, neuroses, neurosis, nonissue, nonusers, openness, overspin, oversups, overuses, pensione, pensions, penuries, pervious, pioneers, preunion, previous, previses, pruinose, puniness, pureness, repousse, resinous, response. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: superventions. | |
+2 letters: unresponsively. | |
+4 letters: unresponsiveness. | |
+5 letters: nonproductiveness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 73 70 6F 6E 73 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . ... .--. --- -. ... .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e s p o n s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0073 0070 006F 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084718582818085758871 |
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