receptive
adjective
having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
unreceptive
-
a word derived from
receptive.
Example Sentences
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But such hopes appear increasingly vain with Pyongyang remaining unreceptive to the overtures of South Korea's centre-left president, Lee Jae Myung.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
It would be the very incurious, unreceptive viewer who leaves “Idea Man” without a heightened appreciation of the human and his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
In George Cooper's case, he says one was "so unreceptive to the point where they were actually angry", and for Elle Gorman, they questioned whether she was "not eating on purpose".
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2023
She described the mutinous officers as unreceptive to her appeals to start negotiations and restore constitutional rule.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Might all the societies of an entire continent be unreceptive, thereby explaining technology’s slow pace of development there?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
