unresponsive

adjective

un·re·spon·sive ˌən-ri-ˈspän(t)-siv

Synonyms of unresponsive next

: not responsive

The patient was unresponsive.

an infection unresponsive to antibiotics

an unresponsive bureaucracy

Although they are able to locate their own food at two weeks of age, fledgling robins will still piteously beg handouts from their increasingly unresponsive father.—

Millard H. Sharp

unresponsively adverb

staring unresponsively

unresponsiveness noun

Examples of unresponsive in a Sentence

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Condon was found unresponsive in an on-base hotel room on Nov. 22 — the day the carrier docked at Yokosuka Naval Base — while Morales was found somewhere off base in Yokosuka three days later. —

David Matthews, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024 Emergency crews found that Brantner was unresponsive at the scene. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2024 Owens was unresponsive by the time authorities arrived at the scene and later pronounced dead at a hospital. —

Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024 An inmate is dead after being found unresponsive at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections Tuesday, officials say. —

Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unresponsive