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insensitive
CIDE DICTIONARY
insensitive, a.
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
insensitive, adj. (often foll. by to)
1 unfeeling; boorish; crass.
2 not sensitive to physical stimuli.
1 unfeeling; boorish; crass.
2 not sensitive to physical stimuli.
Derivative
insensitively adv. insensitiveness n. insensitivity n.
THESAURUS
insensitive
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