unsensitive

American  

[uhn-sen-si-tiv] / ˌʌnˈsɛn sɪˌtɪv /

adjective

1. showing a lack of consideration or emotional sensitivity; insensitive to other people's feelings or needs.

2. not physically sensitive; not reacting or responsive when stimulated or subjected to a particular treatment or process.

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unsensitive

There are in the world a few unsensitive people for whom the mellow, wry blarney of Author Donn-Byrne has no meaning at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

America is not a country sensitive to taxes; no great country has perhaps ever been so unsensitive in this respect; certainly she is far less sensitive than England.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

The facts of gas will have helped to drive this simple conviction into many a thick, egotistical, unsensitive head.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

Even Pope—he had a soul—was not unsensitive to this, as witness his     "Loud as the wolves, on Orcas' stormy steep,     Howl to the roarings of the Northern deep."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

It should not have a current passed through it by the external cell of more than a fraction of a milliampere, or else it becomes wounded and unsensitive.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose