bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - INSUSCEPTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSUSCEPTIBLE)

Related words: (words related to INSUSCEPTIBLE)

  • BRUTENESS
    1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
  • INSENSIBLENESS
    Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
  • STOLIDNESS
    See STOLIDITY
  • STOLID
    Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
  • BRUTE
    1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. 2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature .
  • INSENSIBLE
    1. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton. 2. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with
  • INSENSITIVE
    Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.
  • BRUTELY
    In a rude or violent manner.
  • INSUSCEPTIBLE
    Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.
  • STOLIDITY
    The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.
  • INSENSATE
    Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.
  • UNFEELING
    1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --
  • 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:
  • IMBRUTEMENT
    The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. Brydges.
  • EMBRUTE
    To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

Trending!

 

Back to top