insusceptible
Americanadjective
adjective
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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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The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad’s ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained; it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front he became a railroad-scalper.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The plant next, though plastic in its elements, is comparatively insusceptible of change.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
His soul, indurated by crime, was as insusceptible to the soothing influence of such aspects, as the cold rocky cavern where he had harbored, was impenetrable to the noonday blaze.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
We speak of persons as susceptible or insusceptible to music as we speak of good and poor conductors of electricity; and the analogy implied here is particularly apt and striking.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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
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