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insensitive
English
Etymology
in- +? sensitive
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?s?ns?t?v/
Adjective
insensitive (comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive)
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate
- Not expressing normal physical feeling;
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- 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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.
- 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
Synonyms
- unaffected
- unsensitive
Antonyms
- sensitive
Derived terms
Translations
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senseless
English
Etymology
From sense +? -less. Compare Saterland Frisian sinloos (“senseless, foolish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nsl?s/
- Hyphenation: sense?less
Adjective
senseless (comparative more senseless, superlative most senseless)
- Without feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation.
- The blow to his head rendered him senseless, he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.
- Synonyms: unconscious, insensible
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- What a senseless waste of money.
- Synonyms: pointless, meaningless
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
- He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.
- Synonyms: unreasonable, unwise, stupid
Related terms
- sense
- senseful
- senselessly
- senselessness
Translations
See also
- (deprived of sensation): ageusia, analgesia, anosmia, blind, deaf, hypoesthesia, numbness, paralysis
References
- senseless in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- senseless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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