ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Irresponsive

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Irresponsive is an adjective meaning That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.

Meaning

That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.

Example Sentences

The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […]
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.
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 his dog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unresponsive, nonresponsive, unresponding, non-responsive, unirritable, unreactive.

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