"insensitive" meaning in English

See insensitive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-insensitive.wav Forms: more insensitive [comparative], most insensitive [superlative]
Etymology: From in- + sensitive. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|in|sensitive}} in- + sensitive Head templates: {{en-adj}} insensitive (comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive)
  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. Categories (topical): Emotions, Personality Synonyms: ruthless, uncompassionate, unsensitive
    Sense id: en-insensitive-en-adj-XrPGdUo1 Disambiguation of Emotions: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Personality: 28 32 40 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 35 33 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 38 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 36 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 28 34 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 29 33 37 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 35 33 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 29 35 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 30 35 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 29 33 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Plautdietsch translations: 26 33 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 27 34 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 29 34 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 35 36
  2. Not expressing normal physical feeling. Categories (topical): Emotions, Personality Synonyms: anesthetic, insensate, insensible, unsensitive Translations (not having normal physical feeling): нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen) (Bulgarian), insensible (Catalan), tunnoton (Finnish), turta (Finnish), insensible (French), érzéketlen (Hungarian), 平気な (heiki na) (Japanese), 無神経な (mushinkei na) (Japanese), 鈍感な (donkan na) (Japanese), бесчувстви́телен (besčuvstvítelen) (Macedonian), ufølsom (Norwegian Bokmål), onemfintlich (Plautdietsch), insensible (Spanish), duygusuz (Turkish), hissiz (Turkish), нечутли́вий (nečutlývyj) (Ukrainian), нечу́лий (nečúlyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-insensitive-en-adj-gTLRYQdq Disambiguation of Emotions: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Personality: 28 32 40 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 35 33 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 38 33 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 36 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 28 34 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 29 33 37 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 35 33 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 29 35 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 30 35 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 29 33 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Plautdietsch translations: 26 33 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 27 34 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 29 34 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of 'not having normal physical feeling': 15 58 27
  3. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic. Categories (topical): Emotions, Personality Synonyms: harsh, rude, unsensitive, impolite, stern Translations (not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic): безчувствен (bezčuvstven) (Bulgarian), insensible (Catalan), tunteeton (Finnish), kylmä (Finnish), insensible (French), érzéketlen (Hungarian), tapintatlan (Hungarian), 平気な (heiki na) (Japanese), 無神経な (mushinkei na) (Japanese), 鈍感な (donkan na) (Japanese), бе́счувствен (bésčuvstven) (Macedonian), ufølsom (Norwegian Bokmål), onemfintlich (Plautdietsch), bezduszny (Polish), nieczuły (Polish), insensível (Portuguese), insensible (Spanish), okänslig (Swedish), känslolös (Swedish), anlayışsız (Turkish), duygusuz (Turkish), katı (Turkish), katı yürekli (Turkish), нечутли́вий (nečutlývyj) (Ukrainian), нечу́лий (nečúlyj) (Ukrainian), нечу́йний (nečújnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-insensitive-en-adj-Sh2MnTTB Disambiguation of Emotions: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Personality: 28 32 40 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 35 33 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 38 33 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 24 29 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 36 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 28 34 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 29 33 37 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 35 33 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 29 35 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 30 35 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 29 33 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Plautdietsch translations: 26 33 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 30 34 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 27 34 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 29 34 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of 'not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic': 10 22 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: case-insensitive, insensitively, insensitivity
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          "text": "1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians\nSomehow, 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."
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          "word": "kylmä"
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          "word": "insensible"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "word": "tapintatlan"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
          "word": "平気な"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
          "word": "無神経な"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
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          "word": "бе́счувствен"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "word": "insensível"
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          "word": "insensible"
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "_dis1": "10 22 68",
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          "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "nečuvstvitelen",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "нечувствителен"
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "insensible"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "tunnoton"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "turta"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "insensible"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "érzéketlen"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "heiki na",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "平気な"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mushinkei na",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "無神経な"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "donkan na",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "鈍感な"
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      "roman": "besčuvstvítelen",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "бесчувстви́телен"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
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      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "onemfintlich"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "insensible"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "duygusuz"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "hissiz"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečutlývyj",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "нечутли́вий"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečúlyj",
      "sense": "not having normal physical feeling",
      "word": "нечу́лий"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "безчувствен"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "insensible"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "tunteeton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "kylmä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "insensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "érzéketlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "tapintatlan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "heiki na",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "平気な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mushinkei na",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "無神経な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "donkan na",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "鈍感な"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bésčuvstven",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "бе́счувствен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "ufølsom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "onemfintlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "bezduszny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "nieczuły"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "insensível"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "insensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "okänslig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "känslolös"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "anlayışsız"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "duygusuz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "katı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "katı yürekli"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečutlývyj",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "нечутли́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečúlyj",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "нечу́лий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečújnyj",
      "sense": "not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic",
      "word": "нечу́йний"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.