单词 | irresponsive |
释义 | irresponsiveadj. 1. Not responsive or answering; not responding to a force or stimulus, or to something which appeals to the emotions; giving no answer to a question or inquiry. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [adjective] > lacking an answer answerless1533 responselessa1809 irresponsive1846 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected dead1340 unsmittenc1400 unmovedc1480 unkindleda1525 senseless1560 lumpish1585 unfired1590 unaffectedc1595 incapable1601 unsensible1611 insensible1615 untouched1616 impervious1618 unanswering1632 untransported1641 beauty-proof1676 insensate1726 unsusceptible1734 uninfluenced1735 unimbued1813 unsmote1814 unsusceptive1825 unalive1828 echoless1869 non-conducting1871 unsusceptible1872 irresponsive1886 affectless1912 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Edinb. Rev.). 1866 J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 11 I trust I am not ungrateful or irresponsive to you in this respect. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) App. 714 The whole of the posterior lobe is similarly irresponsive. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiii. 226 Works to which our forefathers were unintelligibly irresponsive. 2. = irresponsible adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > [adjective] > irresponsible irresponsal1637 irresponsible1649 irresponsive1884 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adjective] > not responsible or accountable uncountablea1475 intaxable1631 unresponsal1633 irresponsal1637 accountless1649 irresponsible1649 unchargeable1649 unquestionable1649 unresponsible1653 unaccountable1677 irresponsive1884 unanswerable1884 1884 W. E. Gladstone Let. in H.Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. II. xvi. 306 Irresponsive power is a dangerous thing unless curbed by wisdom. Derivatives irreˈsponsiveness n. the quality or state of being irresponsive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 282 A long period of sullen irresponsiveness. 1872 Spectator 5 Oct. 1263 Nothing can be more marvellously painted than the picture of her irresponsiveness to her husband's anxieties, fears, and hopes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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