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irresponsive

irresponsive adjective: that does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.

Adjective

irresponsive (comparative more irresponsive, superlative most irresponsive)

  1. 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 his dog.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 27

irresponsive meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

irresponsive in Tamil

பொறுப்பற்ற

irresponsive in Urdu

غیرموافق, ناآمادہ

irresponsive in Kannada

ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ ತೋರದ

Forms of irresponsive

comparativemore irresponsive
superlativemost irresponsive

Origin of irresponsive

From ir- + responsive.

Words formed from irresponsive

Questions about irresponsive

What does irresponsive mean?
Irresponsive means that does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
What is irresponsive in Tamil?
Irresponsive in Tamil is பொறுப்பற்ற. See Irresponsive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is irresponsive?
Irresponsive is an adjective.

Words near irresponsive in the dictionary

  1. irresponsibility
  2. irresponsible
  3. irresponsibleness
  4. irresponsibles
  5. irresponsibly
  6. irresponsive
  7. irresponsively
  8. irresponsiveness
  9. irrestrainable
  10. irresultative
  11. irresuscitable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: irresponsive (page history and authors); irresponsive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irresponsive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); irresponsive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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