Responsive, which is often associated with being sensitive and adaptive, has several antonyms that describe the opposite traits. First, unresponsive refers to someone or something that is inactive, passive or indifferent. Second, ignorant is an antonym of responsive when referring to one's awareness of their environment or the needs of others. Third, apathetic refers to a lack of interest or emotion, whereas reactive suggests someone who responds without discernment or forethought. Fourth, inflexible is an antonym of responsive when referring to someone who is rigid and unyielding rather than adaptive. Finally, unyielding emphasizes a lack of flexibility or openness to change.

What are the antonyms for Responsive?

• adj.

  • all
  • unresponsive
  .
  • apathetic
  • couldn't care less
  ,
  • couldnt care less
  ,
  • don't give a damn
  ,
  • don't give damn
  ,
  • dont give a damn
  ,
  • dont give damn
  ,
  • draggier
  ,
  • draggiest
  ,
  • draggy
  ,
  • in sensible
  ,
  • in-sensible
  ,
  • laidback
  ,
  • un concerned
  ,
  • un feeling
  ,
  • un interested
  ,
  • un touched
  ,
  • un-concerned
  ,
  • un-feeling
  ,
  • un-interested
  ,
  • un-moved
  ,
  • un-touched
  ,
  • uninterested
  ,
  • what hell
  ,
  • what the hell
  ,
  • wimpier
  ,
  • wimpiest
  ,
  • wimpy
  .
  • arctic
  • more gelid
  ,
  • most gelid
  .
  • bracing
  • exhilarative
  ,
  • more exhilarative
  ,
  • more fortifying
  ,
  • more stimulative
  ,
  • more tonic
  ,
  • most exhilarative
  ,
  • most fortifying
  ,
  • most reviving
  ,
  • most stimulative
  ,
  • most tonic
  ,
  • stimulative
  .
  • brisk; exhilarating
  • bracing
  .
  • callous
  • Casehardened
  ,
  • blind to
  ,
  • case hardened
  ,
  • case-hardened
  ,
  • cold blooded
  ,
  • coldblooded
  ,
  • deaf to
  ,
  • hard bitten
  ,
  • hard boiled
  ,
  • hardbitten
  ,
  • hardboiled
  ,
  • in flexible
  ,
  • in sensate
  ,
  • in-flexible
  ,
  • in-sensate
  ,
  • in-sentient
  ,
  • more case hardened
  ,
  • more case-hardened
  ,
  • more casehardened
  ,
  • more indurated
  ,
  • more toughened
  ,
  • most case hardened
  ,
  • most case-hardened
  ,
  • most casehardened
  ,
  • most indurated
  ,
  • most inured
  ,
  • most toughened
  ,
  • thick skinned
  ,
  • thickskinned
  ,
  • un bending
  ,
  • un caring
  ,
  • un compassionate
  ,
  • un impressionable
  ,
  • un susceptible
  ,
  • un-bending
  ,
  • un-caring
  ,
  • un-compassionate
  ,
  • un-impressionable
  ,
  • un-susceptible
  .
  • chill
  • Uncompanionable
  ,
  • de pressing
  ,
  • de-pressing
  ,
  • formal
  ,
  • more uncompanionable
  ,
  • more ungenial
  ,
  • more unwelcoming
  ,
  • most uncompanionable
  ,
  • most ungenial
  ,
  • most unwelcoming
  ,
  • re served
  ,
  • re-served
  ,
  • solitary
  ,
  • un companionable
  ,
  • un genial
  ,
  • un happier
  ,
  • un happiest
  ,
  • un happy
  ,
  • un welcoming
  ,
  • un-companionable
  ,
  • un-genial
  ,
  • un-happier
  ,
  • un-happiest
  ,
  • un-happy
  ,
  • un-welcoming
  ,
  • ungenial
  ,
  • unhappy
  ,
  • unwelcoming
  ,
  • with drawn
  ,
  • with-drawn
  .
  • chilly
  • draftier
  ,
  • draftiest
  ,
  • drafty
  ,
  • hawkish
  ,
  • icebox
  ,
  • more hawkish
  ,
  • most hawkish
  ,
  • most icebox
  ,
  • un friendlier
  ,
  • un friendliest
  ,
  • un friendly
  ,
  • un-friendlier
  ,
  • un-friendliest
  ,
  • un-friendly
  ,
  • un-sympathetic
  .
  • chilly, freezing
  • cold
  .
  • cold
  • algid
  ,
  • be numbed
  ,
  • be-numbed
  ,
  • below freezing
  ,
  • below zero
  ,
  • brumal
  ,
  • chilly
  ,
  • frore
  ,
  • frorer
  ,
  • frorest
  ,
  • have goose bumps
  ,
  • hiemal
  ,
  • iced
  ,
  • in hospitable
  ,
  • in tense
  ,
  • in tenser
  ,
  • in-clement
  ,
  • in-hospitable
  ,
  • in-tense
  ,
  • in-tenser
  ,
  • in-tensest
  ,
  • matter of fact
  ,
  • more blasting
  ,
  • more brumal
  ,
  • more chilled
  ,
  • more hiemal
  ,
  • more nipping
  ,
  • more numbed
  ,
  • more siberian
  ,
  • more unimpassioned
  ,
  • most algid
  ,
  • most blasting
  ,
  • most brumal
  ,
  • most chilled
  ,
  • most hiemal
  ,
  • most hyperborean
  ,
  • most iced
  ,
  • most nipping
  ,
  • most numbed
  ,
  • most numbing
  ,
  • most siberian
  ,
  • most unimpassioned
  ,
  • one dog night
  ,
  • one-dog night
  ,
  • onedog night
  ,
  • rimier
  ,
  • rimiest
  ,
  • sleetier
  ,
  • sleetiest
  ,
  • two dog night
  ,
  • two-dog night
  ,
  • twodog night
  ,
  • un demonstrative
  ,
  • un enthusiastic
  ,
  • un impassioned
  ,
  • un-demonstrative
  ,
  • un-enthusiastic
  ,
  • un-impassioned
  ,
  • unimpassioned
  .
  • cold, nippy
  • cool
  .
  • cold, raw
  • chill
  .
  • cold, snowy
  • wintry
  .
  • cool
  • Coldish
  ,
  • Procacious
  ,
  • air conditioned
  ,
  • air-conditioned
  ,
  • airconditioned
  ,
  • coolheaded
  ,
  • de liberate
  ,
  • de-liberate
  ,
  • dis passionate
  ,
  • dis-passionate
  ,
  • hunky dory
  ,
  • hunky-dory
  ,
  • in curious
  ,
  • in solent
  ,
  • in-curious
  ,
  • in-solent
  ,
  • more air conditioned
  ,
  • more air-conditioned
  ,
  • more airconditioned
  ,
  • more coldish
  ,
  • more hunky dory
  ,
  • more hunkydory
  ,
  • more procacious
  ,
  • more refrigerated
  ,
  • more unagitated
  ,
  • more unexcited
  ,
  • most coldish
  ,
  • most hunky dory
  ,
  • most hunky-dory
  ,
  • most hunkydory
  ,
  • most procacious
  ,
  • most refrigerated
  ,
  • most unagitated
  ,
  • most unexcited
  ,
  • offhand
  ,
  • self controlled
  ,
  • selfcontrolled
  ,
  • selfpossessed
  ,
  • un agitated
  ,
  • un approachable
  ,
  • un excited
  ,
  • un flappable
  ,
  • un ruffled
  ,
  • un sociable
  ,
  • un-approachable
  ,
  • un-excited
  ,
  • un-ruffled
  ,
  • un-sociable
  ,
  • unagitated
  ,
  • unapproachable
  ,
  • unenthusiastic
  ,
  • unexcited
  .
  • cruel, insensitive
  • callous
  .
  • dead
  • anesthetized
  ,
  • bereft life
  ,
  • bereft of life
  ,
  • by gone
  ,
  • by-gone
  ,
  • de ceased
  ,
  • de parted
  ,
  • de-ceased
  ,
  • de-parted
  ,
  • gone meet maker
  ,
  • gone reward
  ,
  • gone to meet maker
  ,
  • gone to reward
  ,
  • in animate
  ,
  • in operable
  ,
  • in operative
  ,
  • in sipid
  ,
  • in-active
  ,
  • in-animate
  ,
  • in-operable
  ,
  • in-operative
  ,
  • in-sipid
  ,
  • inert
  ,
  • inoperable
  ,
  • insipid
  ,
  • more anesthetized
  ,
  • more deadened
  ,
  • more erased
  ,
  • more expired
  ,
  • more inoperable
  ,
  • more liquidated
  ,
  • more mortified
  ,
  • more offed
  ,
  • more perished
  ,
  • more reposing
  ,
  • more unanimated
  ,
  • most anesthetized
  ,
  • most deadened
  ,
  • most erased
  ,
  • most expired
  ,
  • most inoperable
  ,
  • most liquidated
  ,
  • most mortified
  ,
  • most offed
  ,
  • most perished
  ,
  • most reposing
  ,
  • most unanimated
  ,
  • no more
  ,
  • not existing
  ,
  • offed
  ,
  • out and out
  ,
  • out misery
  ,
  • out of misery
  ,
  • out of one misery
  ,
  • out of one's misery
  ,
  • out of ones misery
  ,
  • out one misery
  ,
  • out right
  ,
  • out righter
  ,
  • out rightest
  ,
  • out-right
  ,
  • out-righter
  ,
  • pushing daisies
  ,
  • pushing up daisies
  ,
  • resting in peace
  ,
  • resting peace
  ,
  • un animated
  ,
  • un conditional
  ,
  • un employed
  ,
  • un interesting
  ,
  • un mitigated
  ,
  • un profitable
  ,
  • un qualified
  ,
  • un-animated
  ,
  • un-conditional
  ,
  • un-interesting
  ,
  • un-mitigated
  ,
  • un-qualified
  ,
  • unanimated
  .
  • deadened, insensitive
  • numb
  .
  • easygoing, laid back
  • nonchalant
  .
  • emotionless
  • cool cat
  ,
  • laid back
  ,
  • more nonemotional
  ,
  • more nowhere
  ,
  • more stony eyed
  ,
  • more stony-eyed
  ,
  • more toneless
  ,
  • most nowhere
  ,
  • most stony eyed
  ,
  • most stonyeyed
  ,
  • most toneless
  ,
  • non emotional
  ,
  • non-emotional
  ,
  • nowhere
  ,
  • re-mote
  ,
  • stony eyed
  ,
  • stony-eyed
  ,
  • stonyeyed
  ,
  • toneless
  ,
  • with straight face
  .
  • extremely cold
  • frigid
  .
  • freezing
  • frost bound
  ,
  • frost-bound
  ,
  • frostbound
  ,
  • more frost bound
  ,
  • more frost-bound
  ,
  • more frostbound
  ,
  • most frost-bound
  ,
  • most frostbound
  .
  • frigid
  • antarctic
  ,
  • cold hearted
  ,
  • cold-shoulder
  ,
  • coldshoulder
  ,
  • forbidding
  ,
  • hyper boreal
  ,
  • hyper-boreal
  ,
  • hyperboreal
  ,
  • ice cold
  ,
  • icecold
  ,
  • impotent
  ,
  • more antarctic
  ,
  • more cold shoulder
  ,
  • more cold-shoulder
  ,
  • more coldshoulder
  ,
  • more unloving
  ,
  • most antarctic
  ,
  • most cold shoulder
  ,
  • most cold-shoulder
  ,
  • most coldshoulder
  ,
  • most hyperboreal
  ,
  • most unloving
  ,
  • three dog night
  ,
  • three-dog night
  ,
  • threedog night
  ,
  • un loving
  ,
  • un-loving
  ,
  • unloving
  .
  • frosty
  • Icicled
  ,
  • hoar
  ,
  • ice capped
  ,
  • ice-capped
  ,
  • icecapped
  ,
  • more ice capped
  ,
  • more ice-capped
  ,
  • more icecapped
  ,
  • more icicled
  ,
  • most ice capped
  ,
  • most icecapped
  ,
  • most icicled
  .
  • frozen; slippery when frozen
  • icy
  .
  • harsh, unpleasant, referring to weather
  • raw
  .
  • icy
  • Algific
  ,
  • Sleeted
  ,
  • chilled bone
  ,
  • chilled the bone
  ,
  • chilled to bone
  ,
  • chilled to the bone
  ,
  • frigorific
  ,
  • frozen over
  ,
  • more algific
  ,
  • more frigorific
  ,
  • more shivering
  ,
  • more sleeted
  ,
  • most algific
  ,
  • most frigorific
  ,
  • most sleeted
  .
  • impassive
  • Inexcitable
  ,
  • Unimpressible
  ,
  • impassive
  ,
  • in excitable
  ,
  • in expressive
  ,
  • in scrutable
  ,
  • in susceptible
  ,
  • in-excitable
  ,
  • in-expressive
  ,
  • in-scrutable
  ,
  • more inexcitable
  ,
  • more poker faced
  ,
  • more poker-faced
  ,
  • more unexcitable
  ,
  • more unimpressible
  ,
  • most inexcitable
  ,
  • most poker faced
  ,
  • most poker-faced
  ,
  • most unexcitable
  ,
  • most unimpressible
  ,
  • poker faced
  ,
  • poker-faced
  ,
  • self contained
  ,
  • selfcontained
  ,
  • stoical
  ,
  • un excitable
  ,
  • un impressible
  ,
  • un-excitable
  ,
  • un-flappable
  ,
  • un-impressible
  ,
  • unexcitable
  .
  • impervious
  • Unpierceable
  ,
  • closed to
  ,
  • imperviable
  ,
  • in accessible
  ,
  • in vulnerable
  ,
  • in-accessible
  ,
  • in-vulnerable
  ,
  • more imperviable
  ,
  • more unpierceable
  ,
  • more unreceptive
  ,
  • more watertight
  ,
  • most imperviable
  ,
  • most unpierceable
  ,
  • most unreceptive
  ,
  • most watertight
  ,
  • un pierceable
  ,
  • un receptive
  ,
  • un-pierceable
  ,
  • un-receptive
  ,
  • unreceptive
  ,
  • watertight
  .
  • indifferent
  • dis interested
  ,
  • dis-interested
  ,
  • in different
  ,
  • in-attentive
  ,
  • in-different
  ,
  • more unimpressed
  ,
  • more unsocial
  ,
  • most unaroused
  ,
  • most unimpressed
  ,
  • most unsocial
  ,
  • non partisan
  ,
  • non-partisan
  ,
  • un aroused
  ,
  • un biased
  ,
  • un impressed
  ,
  • un involved
  ,
  • un prejudiced
  ,
  • un social
  ,
  • un-aroused
  ,
  • un-involved
  ,
  • un-prejudiced
  ,
  • un-social
  ,
  • unimpressed
  ,
  • unsocial
  .
  • indifferent, callous
  • insensitive
  .
  • indifferent, unenthusiastic
  • lukewarm
  .
  • insensitive
  • Imperceptive
  ,
  • coldhearted
  ,
  • feelingless
  ,
  • hard as nails
  ,
  • immune to
  ,
  • in sensitive
  ,
  • in-sensitive
  ,
  • more feelingless
  ,
  • more imperceptive
  ,
  • more nonreactive
  ,
  • most feelingless
  ,
  • most imperceptive
  ,
  • non reactive
  ,
  • non-reactive
  ,
  • nonreactive
  ,
  • un kind
  ,
  • un kinder
  ,
  • un kindest
  ,
  • un-kind
  ,
  • un-kinder
  ,
  • un-kindest
  .
  • lukewarm
  • half hearted
  ,
  • in decisive
  ,
  • in-decisive
  ,
  • un committed
  ,
  • un decided
  ,
  • un resolved
  ,
  • un-committed
  ,
  • un-decided
  ,
  • wishy washy
  ,
  • wishywashy
  .
  • no longer alive
  • dead
  .
  • nonchalant
  • Disimpassioned
  ,
  • dis impassioned
  ,
  • dis-impassioned
  ,
  • more disimpassioned
  ,
  • most disimpassioned
  ,
  • un perturbed
  ,
  • un troubled
  ,
  • un-perturbed
  ,
  • un-troubled
  .
  • not responsive
  • unemotional
  .
  • noun
  • refractory
  .
  • numb
  • more immobilized
  ,
  • more uncurious
  ,
  • most immobilized
  ,
  • most uncurious
  ,
  • un conscious
  ,
  • un curious
  ,
  • un-conscious
  ,
  • un-curious
  ,
  • uncurious
  .
  • quick to react
  • ignorant
  ,
  • indifferent
  ,
  • merciless
  ,
  • senseless
  ,
  • unaware
  ,
  • unconscious
  ,
  • unfeeling
  ,
  • unfriendly
  ,
  • unsusceptible
  .
  • raw
  • more wind swept
  ,
  • more wind-swept
  ,
  • more windswept
  ,
  • most wind-swept
  ,
  • most windswept
  ,
  • wind-swept
  ,
  • windswept
  .
  • shy, silent
  • uncommunicative
  .
  • speechless
  • buttoned up
  ,
  • clammed up
  ,
  • close mouthed
  ,
  • cool as cucumber
  ,
  • in articulate
  ,
  • in-articulate
  ,
  • more amazed
  ,
  • more astounded
  ,
  • more wordless
  ,
  • most amazed
  ,
  • most astounded
  ,
  • most wordless
  ,
  • not saying boo
  ,
  • speechless
  ,
  • tight lipped
  ,
  • tongue tied
  ,
  • wordless
  .
  • stoic
  • longsuffering
  ,
  • re signed
  ,
  • re-signed
  .
  • unable to be penetrated
  • impervious
  .
  • unaffected
  • Hard-hearted
  ,
  • easy going
  ,
  • easy-going
  ,
  • hard hearted
  ,
  • more easy going
  ,
  • more easy-going
  ,
  • more hard hearted
  ,
  • more hard-hearted
  ,
  • more unaltered
  ,
  • more uninfluenced
  ,
  • most easy going
  ,
  • most hard hearted
  ,
  • most hard-hearted
  ,
  • most unaltered
  ,
  • most uninfluenced
  ,
  • not influenced
  ,
  • proofer
  ,
  • proofest
  ,
  • un affected
  ,
  • un altered
  ,
  • un influenced
  ,
  • un stirred
  ,
  • un-altered
  ,
  • un-influenced
  ,
  • un-stirred
  ,
  • unaltered
  ,
  • uninfluenced
  .
  • unchanged, unmoved
  • unaffected
  .
  • uncommunicative
  • dried up
  ,
  • hush hush
  ,
  • hushhush
  ,
  • on qt
  ,
  • re tiring
  ,
  • re-tiring
  ,
  • un communicative
  ,
  • un-communicative
  .
  • unemotional
  • along for ride
  ,
  • along for the ride
  ,
  • going with flow
  ,
  • going with the flow
  ,
  • rolling with punches
  ,
  • rolling with the punches
  ,
  • un emotional
  ,
  • un-emotional
  .
  • unfeeling, undemonstrative
  • emotionless
  .
  • unresponsive
  • un responsive
  ,
  • un-responsive
  .
  • unsympathetic
  • anti pathetic
  ,
  • anti-pathetic
  ,
  • aversive
  ,
  • more aversive
  ,
  • most aversive
  ,
  • un congenial
  ,
  • un pitying
  ,
  • un pleasant
  ,
  • un sympathetic
  ,
  • un-congenial
  ,
  • un-pitying
  ,
  • un-pleasant
  .
  • very cold
  • arctic
  ,
  • freezing
  ,
  • frosty
  .
  • wintry
  • de solate
  ,
  • de-solate
  ,
  • hibernal
  ,
  • more hibernal
  ,
  • most hibernal
  .
  • without agreement in feeling
  • unsympathetic
  .

Usage examples for Responsive

Famous quotes with Responsive

• As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

  Cleveland Abbe
• Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

  George P. Baker
• France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

  Jacques Chirac
• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  Kate Chopin
• The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

  Jim Cramer

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