irresponsive
That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
Adjective
- That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
- The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […] - 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
- 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...
- 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. - 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 31:
Origin
From ir- + responsive.