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