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The meaning of INSENSITIVE is lacking feeling or tact. How to use insensitive in a sentence.
not aware of other people’s feelings, or not showing sympathy for the feelings of other people: The governor apologized for his insensitive remarks about the homeless. Insensitive can also mean not noticing the effects of something or unable to feel something: His feet seem to be insensitive to pain.
When you're insensitive, you're not feeling something. You can be insensitive to the weather or other people's problems. This word has two meanings that are closely related. When your foot is asleep, it's insensitive or numb — you can't feel your friend poking at it.
Synonyms for INSENSITIVE: ruthless, merciless, callous, abusive, hard, harsh, stony, hateful; Antonyms of INSENSITIVE: sensitive, sympathetic, warm, charitable, compassionate, humane, merciful, gentle.
insensitive. If you describe someone as insensitive, you are criticizing them for being unaware of or unsympathetic to other people's feelings. Someone who is insensitive to a situation or to a need does not think or care about it. Someone who is insensitive to a physical sensation is unable to feel it.
insensitive (to something) not aware of changing situations, and therefore of the need to react to them. The government seems totally insensitive to the mood of the country. Many of the institutions were insensitive to the needs of their patients.
1. deficient in human sensibility, acuteness of feeling, or consideration; unfeeling; callous. an insensitive person. 2. not physically sensitive. insensitive skin. 3. not affected by physical or chemical agencies or influences. insensitive to light.
There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective insensitive, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. insensitive has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
Not sensitive; esp., incapable of being impressed, influenced, or affected; having little or no reaction (to) Webster's New World. Having or showing a lack of concern for the feelings of others; tactless. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
not affected by physical or chemical agencies or influences: insensitive to light. not readily responsive or aware: insensitive to the needs of the peasants. in - 3 + sensitive 1600–10
