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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They knew Mrs. Hilary to be a muddled bigot, whose mind was stuffed with concrete instances and insusceptible of abstract reason.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
We find it strong, pliable, insusceptible to either heat or cold and to all appearances will be more durable than anything we have ever used.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by James Rankin
These grave questions are as yet insusceptible of answer.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
What has actually happened in the year which has since elapsed has shown that those hopes were not justified, those assurances insusceptible of being fulfilled.
From President Wilson's Addresses by George McLean Harper
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
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