single word requests - Adjectives and nouns to describe an answer that doesn't answer the question?


I've heard of the adjectives 'nonresponsive' or 'unresponsive', but are they restricted to law^?



Collins Dictionary: nonresponsive = not responsive, not reacting to a stimulus



The definition above differs from the definitions of adjectives like 'equivocate, evade' and nouns like 'dodging', but these are negative and accusive; I prefer neutral connotation.


^Only if you wish, please see: http://law.indiana.edu/instruction/tanford/web/reference/objections.html, p 169 of The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win by David Berg,
p 271 of Trials: Strategy, Skills, and the New Power of Persuasion by Thomas A. Mauet.




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