receptive
adjective
having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
unreceptive
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a word derived from
receptive.
Example Sentences
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But the bosses are likely to find an increasingly unreceptive audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
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
