unanswering

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ answering.

Adjective

unanswering (not comparable)

1. Giving no answer; unresponsive.
   • 1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts‎^[1]:

     Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her.

   • 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo‎^[2]:

     He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.