insusceptible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of insusceptible
First recorded in 1595–1605; in- 3 + susceptible
Explanation
If you're insusceptible to something, you're unlikely to be harmed or affected by it. The comic book hero Superman is famously insusceptible to everything except for Kryptonite; it's the only substance to which he's vulnerable. If you've had the chicken pox vaccine, you'll be insusceptible to the chicken pox virus, and if you aren't interested in music, you're probablykrypto insusceptible to a particularly poignant, bittersweet melody that makes your friend cry. Kids who are insusceptible to TV commercials don't pay any attention to them (and don't beg their parents for the latest toys).
Vocabulary lists containing insusceptible
cept, capt, ceive (take, hold, seize)
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Example Sentences
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After a disease has been endemic among a people for many generations that people gradually becomes quite insusceptible to its effects and suffers much less from it than before.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
These disputes are the most insusceptible of determination, because they have no foundation in reason.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
It is from fifty to one hundred and fifty yards wide, always rapid, rocky, and insusceptible of navigation.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Immunity.—Some persons are insusceptible to infection by certain diseases, from which they are said to enjoy a natural immunity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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