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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Example Sentences

“Dr. Edward C. Spitzka, of New York, the noted alienist, has recently given several really remarkable instances of the power of mental suggestion. ‘In the graver forms of hysteria,’ says Dr. Spitzka, ‘when loss of sensation occurs in exactly one-half the body, you can lay a piece of tinted paper on the sensitive side; then suggesting it to be a mustard plaster, a red area will appear on the corresponding unsensitive side.’

From Scientific American

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 Project Gutenberg

Page 56, variation in spelling, unsensitive for insensitive, 'wounded and unsensitive.'.

From Project Gutenberg

Not because you’re inept or unsensitive or anything stupid— It’s because there’s something they want to say to me—a message they want to give to me alone.

From Project Gutenberg

What he wanted he went after with a cold and unsensitive directness that no newspapers had been courageous enough to characterise.

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