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.
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- adjective Not
receiving ; incapable of receiving.
Etymologies
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ir- + receptive
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Examples
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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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