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Definition: Unreceptive |
UnreceptiveAdjective1. Not receptive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unreceptive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Antonym: receptive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unreceptive |
| English words defined with "unreceptive": closed ♦ unsympathetic. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Understanding how synapses develop may reveal whether spinal regeneration stops because regenerating axons lack the ability to form synapses or whether nerve cells below the lesion are unreceptive to synapse formation. (references) | |
Business | While Argentine consumers in the high-end segment are basically unreceptive to American casual apparel, and in the low-end consumers buy primarily according to price, the middle and upper-middle class continues to seek good American casual apparel. (references) | |
The market is very receptive to foreign products and services, but would be market entrants should not underestimate the magnitude of the task of becoming a mainstream supplier to Britain's major telecommunications companies and ISPs. All have well-established supplier relationships in place and most remain unreceptive to a direct approach from companies lacking any in-country representation. (references) | ||
Economic History | Georgia | Until recently, the powerful Ministry of Telecommunication has been unreceptive to foreign investment, resulting in a phone system that is one of the oldest and least reliable in the world. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unreceptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unreceptive" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unreceptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | unempfänglich (dull, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, unfeeling, unreceivable, unresponsive, unsusceptible), unaufgeschlossen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eceptiveunray невосприимчивый (immune, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, refractory, unsusceptible). (various references) kolay anlamayan, kavramayan, açık olmayan (cloudy, inexplicit, unclear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unreceptive" (pronounced unruse"ptiv) |
| 8 | -r u s e" p t i v | contraceptive, receptive. |
| 7 | -u s e" p t i v | deceptive. |
| 6 | -s e" p t i v | perceptive. |
| 4 | -p t i v | adaptive, adoptive, captive, corruptive, descriptive, disparages, disruptive, eruptive, preemptive, presumptive, redemptive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, cooperative, corrective, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, dispositive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, recuperative, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: epicenter, receptive. | |
-3 letters: ceinture, enuretic, erective, eruptive, perceive, prentice, pretence, preunite, terpenic. | |
-4 letters: cervine, creepie, cuprite, enteric, enticer, epicene, epicure, eucrite, eupneic, evictee, incurve, percent, picture, precent, preteen, prevent, receipt, receive, retinue, reunite, revenue, teenier, terpene, unreeve, uterine, venture, venturi. | |
-5 letters: center, centre, cerite, cretin, curite, curvet, entice, entire, entree, envier, eterne, evener, evince. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: unperceptive. | |
+4 letters: superconvenient. | |
+5 letters: productivenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 63 65 70 74 69 76 65 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . -.-. . .--. - .. ...- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e c e p t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580847169718286758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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