| 单词 | insensitive |
| 释义 | insensitive (once / 7802 pages) adj When you're insensitive, you're not feeling something. You can be insensitive to the weather or other people's problems. This word has two meanings that are closely related. When your foot is asleep, it's insensitive or numb — you can't feel your friend poking at it. When you get really cold, you can become insensitive to pain. In the other sense, insensitive means the opposite of caring and sympathetic — you're insensitive to other people's feelings. If you make a joke about your friend's bad haircut when you know she's embarrassed about it, you're being insensitive. WORD FAMILYinsensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/desensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensible: insensibility, insensibly/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/sense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLESAt worst, they say, the remarks were rude and insensitive. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Many Twitter users called the tweet tasteless and insensitive, but the comedian remained unapologetic. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Every few months, Zed said, he receives a message about some insensitive commercial use of a Hindu image. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive insensitive to the needs of the patients Syn|Ant hard dispassionate unresponsivenot responding to some influence or stimulus insensibleincapable of physical sensation callous, indurate, pachydermatousemotionally hardened dead, numb(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive dullblunted in responsiveness or sensibility insensible, unaffectedunaware of or indifferent to soullesslacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling thick-skinned, tough-skinnedinsensitive to criticism toughnot given to gentleness or sentimentality sensitive being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others responsivereadily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion alive(followed by `to' or `of') aware of feisty, huffy, thin-skinned, touchyquick to take offense oversensitiveunduly sensitive or thin-skinned 2adj not responsive to physical stimuli insensitive to radiation Syn|Ant unresponsive not responding to some influence or stimulus insensibleincapable of physical sensation dead, deadeneddevoid of physical sensation; numb unreactivenot tending to react to stimulation insusceptible, unsusceptiblenot susceptible to sensitive responsive to physical stimuli responsivereadily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion sensible, sensitiveable to feel or perceive delicateof an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely erogenoussensitive to sexual stimulation excitable, irritablecapable of responding to stimuli highly sensitivereadily affected by various agents irritableabnormally sensitive to a stimulus light-sensitive, photosensitivesensitive to visible light radiosensitivesensitive to radiation nociceptivecaused by or in response to pain reactive, responsivereacting to a stimulus susceptible(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of |
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