unreceptiveadj.

1722 R. Blackmore Redemption iv. 221 Finite beings unreceptive are of infinite.

1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley in tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell Pref. p. xlviii The self-hardened..render themselves unreceptive of mercy.

1865 M. Pattison in N. Brit. Rev. 42 254 To sharpen the attention of a defiant and unreceptive mind such as that of Wolf.

1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xix. 147 That wholly unreceptive..mood which cannot even temporarily condescend to sympathy.

1943 Polit. Sci. Q. 58 331 Their minds were unreceptive to novel and revolutionary ideas.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. xi. 92/2 Removing the ovaries..of a bushbaby makes the female sexually unreceptive, as is the case in rodents, carnivores and many other mammals.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) 559 Our message tends to fall on unreceptive ears because of our own well-known environmental misdeeds.

1876 Spectator 1 Jan. 19/2 He shows how this power of absorption, on the one hand, and absolute unreceptiveness, on the other,..helped to stereotype the character of the nation.

1915 J. T. Gibson Jesus Christ xxviii. 173 It was the unreceptiveness on the part of his hearers that led Christ to use so many parables.

2005 El Paso (Texas) Times (Nexis) 12 May 5 b If one were to look for a single disconcerting factor that is ubiquitous to classrooms, it is the unreceptiveness of students to instruction.