irresponsive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
Example Sentences
- "The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […]"
- "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."
- "I had seen him once in that brown coat; I touched its sleeve, but it was limp and irresponsive to that faint call of memory."
Etymology
From ir- + responsive.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in
Inflected Forms
more irresponsive (comparative)
most irresponsive (superlative)