Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Exhibiting a lack of responsiveness.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not responsive.

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  • adjective Not responsive; unreactive.
  • adjective Indifferent or apathetic; emotionless.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective aloof or indifferent
  • adjective not susceptible to suggestion or influence
  • adjective not responding to some influence or stimulus

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Examples

  • In fact, only a small fraction of such treatments have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and virtually all the diseases that can be treated with such cells are blood diseases, while diseases of virtually every other organ remain unresponsive to adult stem cells.

    Stem-Cell Bill Passes...Again 2007

  • And later, people with autism are often described as unresponsive, even unaware.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2007 2007

  • I have a client now who probably wouldn't use the word unresponsive, but he would say he never reaches me on the phone.

    Archive 2006-10-15 Miss Snark 2006

  • Nurse practitioner Tamara Dixon said Wednesday that 51-year-old Jordan Adam Criado is in guarded but stable condition and on a mechanical respirator to be sure he has no breathing problems while he is in what is called an unresponsive state.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • These issues may allow a remote privileged user with real IP addressesor subnet to easily cause certain network services on the affectedsystem to become unresponsive, which is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

    Planet Sun 2010

  • Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, has been taken to UCLA Medical Center after her husband said he found her "unresponsive" this morning.

    Zsa Zsa Gabor taken back to hospital 2010

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