nonresponder
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who does not show an immune response to a virus after being vaccinated against it; someone who does not react normally to a drug.
Example Sentences
- "The court sent "requests to show cause" to all questionnaire non-responders."
- "A vaccine non-responder is a person who does not develop protective surface antibodies after completing two full series of injections."
- "We now know that about one in 10 people on the drugs are what scientists call “non-responders” who lose less than 5 percent of their body weight."
Etymology
Etymology tree English non- English respond Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English responder English nonresponder From non- + responder.
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Frequently Paired Words
super-responder