English Explanatory Dictionary

insensitive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
  2. Not expressing normal physical feeling.
  3. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-insensitive.wav

Word forms

insensitive more insensitive most insensitive

Etymology

From in- + sensitive.

Synonyms

ruthless uncompassionate unsensitive anesthetic insensate insensible harsh rude aweless improper bad-mannered barbaric bold bumptious crude churlish impudent discourteous gauche ill-bred ill-mannered impolite incivil insolent lack-grace mismannered rantipole rough uncivil uncivilized uncourteous uncouth uncultured underbred unmannerly unpolished unpolite unrefined brutal callous cold cold-eyed cruel dour flint-hearted forbidding frosty grim hard hard-boiled hardened hardhearted heartless humorless icy iron-hearted insensitive marble-hearted rigorous rockhearted

Antonyms

compassionate ruthful sensitive sensate tactful warm

Derived words

case-insensitive insensitively insensitiveness insensitivity mechanoinsensitive photoinsensitive radioinsensitive
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