Word Meanings - INSENSITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSENSITIVE)

• Apathetic
• Unfeeling
• stoical
• cold
• frigid
• indifferent
• impassive
• insensible
• insensitive
• Blunt
• Dull
• obtuse
• pointless
• edgeless
• bluff
• coarse
• impolite
• plain-mannered
• uncivil
• rude
• Insensate
• Brute
• unfeeling
• stolid
• insusceptible
• unimpressible

Related words: (words related to INSENSITIVE)

• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• BRUTENESS
  1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• OBTUSE
  1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• BLUFFNESS
  The quality or state of being bluff.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• BLUFFY
  1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. 2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.
• UNCIVILITY
  Incivility.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• APATHETICALLY
  In an apathetic manner.
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• IMPOLITE
  Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
• IMBRUTE
  To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• HEDGELESS
  Having no hedge.