Insensitive

Adjective

 * 1) not having normal physical feeling
 * 2) * 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
 * It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
 * 1) not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
 * 2) * 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
 * Somehow, 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.
 * 1) * 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
 * Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.

Synonyms

 * unaffected

Thesaurus
Philistine, aloof, anesthetic, anesthetized, asleep, benumbed, blanket, bloodless, boorish, caddish, callous, calloused, case-hardened, casual, coarse, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, crude, dead, deadened, dull, flinthearted, flinty, general, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, ill-bred, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, impervious, imprudent, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, indurated, insensate, insensible, insentient, inured, loutish, louty, nasty, nonjudgmental, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, offensive, pachydermatous, promiscuous, proof against, rocky, senseless, steeled against, steely, stony, stonyhearted, tactless, thick-skinned, thick-witted, unconcerned, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, unfeeling, unfelt, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, unimpressible, unimpressionable, unladylike, unmerciful, unmeticulous, unnatural, unparticular, unperceptive, unrefined, unresponsive, unselective, unsolicitous, unsubtle, unsusceptible, untactful, vulgar, wholesale

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