unreceptive.

Unwilling or unready to accept ideas, suggestions, or assistance.

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Words that belong together

• unreceptive audience
• unreceptive to advice

On the page

The committee remained unreceptive to arguments based only on tradition.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Comparative more unreceptive; superlative most unreceptive when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, behavior. Commonness: moderately common.