insusceptible
not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
Origin of insusceptible
1Other words from insusceptible
- in·sus·cep·ti·bil·i·ty, noun
- in·sus·cep·ti·bly, adverb
Words Nearby insusceptible
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How to use insusceptible in a sentence
They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason.
Dangerous Ages | Rose MacaulayIt remains as a pure deduction from the philosophical conception of Monism, incapable of proof, insusceptible of refutation.
The Arena | VariousDid it make the patient insusceptible of the effects of a second inoculation with purulent matter?
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles CreightonThe 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.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. | Sir Leslie Stephen
British Dictionary definitions for insusceptible
/ (ˌɪnsəˈsɛptəbəl) /
(when postpositive, usually foll by to) not capable of being affected (by); not susceptible (to)
Derived forms of insusceptible
- insusceptibility, noun
- insusceptibly, adverb
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