UNRESPONSIVE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for UNRESPONSIVE?

Need another word that means the same as “unresponsive”? Find 55 synonyms for “unresponsive” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Unresponsive” are: sullen, sulky, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsmiling, humourless, uncommunicative, taciturn, unsociable, scowling, glowering, ill-humoured, sombre, sober, saturnine, pessimistic, lugubrious, mournful, melancholy, melancholic, doleful, miserable, dismal, depressed, dejected, despondent, downcast, unhappy, low-spirited, in low spirits, low, with a long face, blue, down, grumpy, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, testy, snappish, peevish, crusty, waspish

Unresponsive as an Adjective

Definitions of "Unresponsive" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “unresponsive” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Not responsive.
• Not susceptible to suggestion or influence.
• Aloof or indifferent.
• Not responding to some influence or stimulus.

Synonyms of "Unresponsive" as an adjective (55 Words)

bad-tempered	Annoyed and irritable.
blue	Of a ski run of the second lowest level of difficulty as indicated by blue markers positioned along it. A blue family.
cantankerous	Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative. A cantankerous and venomous tongued old lady.
churlish	Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way. It seems churlish to complain.
crabbed	Annoyed and irritable. Crabbed legal language.
crabby	Irritable. A rather crabby old man.
cross	Extending or lying across in a crosswise direction at right angles to the long axis. Cross members should be all steel.
crotchety	Irritable. He was tired and crotchety.
crusty	Having a hardened crust as a covering. Crusty remarks.
dejected	Sad and depressed; dispirited. He stood in the street looking dejected.
depressed	(of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment. Depressed by the loss of his job.
despondent	In low spirits from loss of hope or courage. She grew more and more despondent.
dismal	(of a person or their mood) gloomy. The first dismal dispiriting days of November.
doleful	Filled with or evoking sadness. He could be struck off with doleful consequences.
dour	Stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot. A hard dour humourless fanatic.
down	Denoting a flavour variety of stable quark having relatively low mass and an electric charge of 1 3 In the Standard Model protons and neutrons are composed of up and down quarks. The down staircase.
downcast	Directed downward. Her modestly downcast eyes.
gloomy	Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening. The gloomy forest.
glowering	Showing a brooding ill humor.
glum	Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. A glum hopeless shrug.
grouchy	Irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy; complaining. The old man grew sulky and grouchy.
grumpy	Bad-tempered and irritable. His performance as the grumpy gateman.
humourless	Lacking humor- Truman Capote. A rather humourless performance.
ill-humoured	Brusque and surly and forbidding.
ill-tempered	Annoyed and irritable.
in a bad mood	Directed or bound inward.
in low spirits	Currently fashionable.
irritable	Abnormally sensitive to a stimulus. She was tired and irritable.
low	Used of sounds and voices low in pitch or frequency. The sun was low in the sky.
low-spirited	Filled with melancholy and despondency.
lugubrious	Looking or sounding sad and dismal. His face looked even more lugubrious than usual.
melancholic	Feeling or expressing pensive sadness. Her melancholic smile.
melancholy	Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. The melancholy tone of her writing.
miserable	Deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy. A lousy dollar a day could any government be more miserable.
moody	(of a person) given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness. His moody adolescent brother.
mournful	Filled with or evoking sadness. Mournful news.
peevish	Having or showing an irritable disposition. A thin peevish voice.
pessimistic	Expecting the worst possible outcome. He was pessimistic about the prospects.
saturnine	Bitter or scornful- Oscar Wilde. The face was saturnine and swarthy and the sensual lips twisted with disdain.
scowling	Sullen or unfriendly in appearance.
snappish	Apt to speak irritably. She was often snappish with the children.
sober	Lacking brightness or color; dull. Sober Puritan grey.
sombre	Grave or even gloomy in character. He looked at her with a sombre expression.
sour	In an unpalatable state. The kitchen smelled of sour milk.
sulky	Morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful. She had a sultry sulky mouth.
sullen	Darkened by clouds. A sullen crowd.
surly	Bad-tempered and unfriendly. The porter left with a surly expression.
taciturn	Habitually reserved and uncommunicative. After such gatherings she would be taciturn and morose.
testy	Easily irritated or annoyed. His testy disapproving father.
uncommunicative	Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions. The uncommunicative Emily disappeared.
unhappy	Generalized feeling of distress. An unhappy coincidence.
unsmiling	Not smiling. A large unsmiling woman.
unsociable	Not inclined to society or companionship. An unsociable neighborhood.
waspish	Very irritable. He had a waspish tongue.
with a long face	Of relatively great height- Sherwood Anderson.

Usage Examples of "Unresponsive" as an adjective

• Was unresponsive to her passionate advances.
• These symptoms may be unresponsive to conventional treatment.