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insusceptible
[ in-suh-sep-tuh-buhl ]
adjective
- not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to ):
insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
insusceptible
/ ˌɪnsəˈsɛptəbəl /
adjective
- whenpostpositive, usually foll by to not capable of being affected (by); not susceptible (to)
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Derived Forms
- ˌinsusˈceptibly, adverb
- ˌinsusˌceptiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- insus·cepti·bili·ty noun
- insus·cepti·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of insusceptible1
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Example Sentences
They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason.
It remains as a pure deduction from the philosophical conception of Monism, incapable of proof, insusceptible of refutation.
Did it make the patient insusceptible of the effects of a second inoculation with purulent matter?
The first of these is, that yellow fever is strictly a self-limited disease, and therefore is insusceptible of jugulation.
Still it is idle to deny that the doctrines are insusceptible of proof.
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