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unreceptive

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Adj.1.unreceptiveunreceptive - not receptive
receptive, open - ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals"
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Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavorable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
Before he left it with nearly an hour of his watch below sacrificed, he addressed himself once more to our young man who stood abreast of the mizzen rigging in an unreceptive mood expressed by silence and immobility.
Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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