unfeeling, hard, cold, uncaring, indifferent, callous; not physically sensitive to certain sensations
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Insensitive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutNot sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
insensitive
\in*sen"si*tive\ (?), a. not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. ruskin.
Adjective
1. not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
(antonym) sensitive
(similar) dead, deadened
(see-also) insensible
(attribute) sensitivity
2. deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"
(antonym) sensitive
(similar) callous, thick-skinned, indurate, pachydermatous
(see-also) hard
(attribute) sensitivity, sensitiveness
Insensitive Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Insensitive refers to a lack of sensitivity. It may also refer to:
- "Insensitive" (song), a 1995 song by Canadian singer Jann Arden
- Insensitive (House), an episode of the TV series House
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