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unresponsive

adjective as in not responsive

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During one session, detainee Abu Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth.”

“The punches and kicks eventually knocked me unconscious and left me completely unresponsive,” Singh explained.

A third girl, 18-year-old Natasha Weigel, lay face-up across the back seat, also breathing, but also unresponsive.

The automaker was supposed to get rid of its unresponsive culture in exchange for taxpayer salvation.

But this time he was unresponsive and the doctors said he needed emergency surgery.

He stooped over her hand, and slobbered kisses upon her unresponsive glove.

Two expressionless faces, two pairs of unresponsive eyes, met his merry glance.

Marie answered him whenever his monologue required answer, but she was unresponsive, uninterested—bored.

He dropped the reins and caught her hand, and she made no resistance, although her touch was unresponsive.

What sort of love would that be that we had to try to bring into being—to force upon an unresponsive heart?

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unresponsive, such as: insensitive, passive, cold, cool, frigid, and unemotional.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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