insensitive

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
  2. Not expressing normal physical feeling.
    — It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
  3. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
    — 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.

词形变化

more insensitive comparative most insensitive superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
case-insensitive insensitively insensitiveness insensitivity mechanoinsensitive photoinsensitive radioinsensitive

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English sensitive
English insensitive
From in- + sensitive.
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