Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not receptive; incapable of receiving.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not receiving; incapable of receiving.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not receiving; incapable of receiving.

Etymologies

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ir- +‎ receptive

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Examples

  • SENSE, but precisely at this point Schopenhauer himself was poor, irreceptive, and un-German to the extent of ingeniousness.)

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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