irresponsive

Adjective

Meaning

Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

brute insensitive careless chill impervious inhuman cold-blooded callous hard-boiled insensible unrequited insensate feckless indurate acquiescent

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Antonyms

kind understanding feeling warm sensitive friendly

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Phrases with the word

be irresponsive

Examples

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before. Mahatma Gandhi

Close letter words and terms

irresponsible behaviour irresponsibleness irresponsibly irresponsiveness irrestrainable irresultative