English
Etymology
negative in- + sensitive
Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
Adjective
insensitive
- not having 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.
- not having 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.
Translations
trans-top|not having normal physical feeling
Finnish: tunnoton, turta
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trans-bottom
trans-top|not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
Finnish: tunteeton, kylmä
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trans-bottom
vi:insensitive
zh:insensitive
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