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Definition of Insensitive
1. Adjective. Not responsive to physical stimuli. "Insensitive to radiation"
Also: Unresponsive, Insensible, Insusceptible, Unsusceptible
Similar to: Dead, Deadened, Unreactive
Antonyms: Sensitive
2. Adjective. Deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive. "Insensitive to the needs of the patients"
Also: Hard, Unresponsive, Insensible, Tough
Similar to: Callous, Indurate, Pachydermatous, Dead, Numb, Dull, Insensible, Unaffected, Soulless, Thick-skinned, Tough-skinned
Derivative terms: Insensitiveness, Insensitivity
Antonyms: Sensitive
Definition of Insensitive
1. a. Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
Definition of Insensitive
1. Adjective. Not having normal physical feeling ¹
2. Adjective. Not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insensitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insensitive
Literary usage of Insensitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1907)
"... Relatively Few, Insensitive and Simple.— Leaving now the subject of the
intellectual capacity of the Negroes, and considering their sensitive nature, ..."
2. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"Fowls, moreover, are relatively insensitive to injuries. As to the "alien species
protein" factor in the foregoing experiment, we confess that we were ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"Consciousness of external things can alone be aroused by impressions transmitted
to the brain textures (themselves insensitive) becoming converted into ..."
4. The Puritan Spirit by Richard Salter Storrs (1890)
"... though secular success may seem at times to have fettered or dissolved it;
though a daintier culture may have made men insensitive, if not positively ..."
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