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insensitive

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in·sen·si·tive  (n-sns-tv)
adj.
1. Not physically sensitive; numb.
2.
a. Lacking in sensitivity to the feelings or circumstances of others; unfeeling.
b. Lacking in responsiveness: insensitive to the needs of the customers.

in·sensi·tive·ly adv.
in·sensi·tivi·ty, in·sensi·tive·ness n.

insensitive
Adjective
unaware of or ignoring other people's feelings
insensitivity n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.insensitive - not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
unresponsive - not responding to some influence or stimulus
insensible - incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
insusceptible, unsusceptible - not susceptible to
sensitive - responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
2.insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"
hard - dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";
unresponsive - not responding to some influence or stimulus
insensible - incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"
tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
sensitive - being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; "sensitive to the local community and its needs"

insensitive
adjective unfeeling, indifferent, unconcerned, uncaring, tough, hardened, callous, crass, unresponsive, thick-skinned, obtuse, tactless, imperceptive, unsusceptible << OPPOSITE sensitive >> insensitive to unaffected by, immune to, impervious to, dead to, unmoved by, proof against
Translations
Spanish insensitive [ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv] adjinsensible
French insensitive [ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv] adjinsensible
German insensitive [ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv] adjgefühllos
Italian insensitive [ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv] adjinsensibile

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The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
How indeed, could she conceive anything far outside her own experience, a woman with a commonplace face like hers, a little round red face, upon which trivial duties and trivial spites had drawn lines, whose weak blue eyes saw without intensity or individuality, whose features were blurred, insensitive, and callous?
 
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