Crossword clues for insensitive
insensitive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insensitive \In*sen"si*tive\, a.
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute
sensibility.
--Tillotson.
--Ruskin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not expressing normal physical feeling 2 Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
WordNet
Wikipedia
'Insensitivity' |-,sensi'tivitē| refers to a lack of sensitivity for other's feelings: an intensive remark. It may also refer to:
- "Insensitive" (song), a 1995 song by Canadian singer Jann Arden
- Insensitive (House), an episode of the TV series House
"Insensitive" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of House and the sixtieth episode overall.
"Insensitive" is the title of a track from the 1994 Jann Arden album Living Under June; an international hit single, "Insensitive" remains the career record for Arden. The song is unique in Arden's repertoire as the one song she's made the first recorded version of which she did not write, the composer of "Insensitive" being Anne Loree.
Usage examples of "insensitive".
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.
In retinitis pigmentosa the peripheral or extramacular portions of the retina are subject to a pigmentary degeneration that renders them insensitive to light, and patients so afflicted are consequently incapable of seeing at night as well as others.
A deep respect is due the Schopenhauerian philosopher who looks upon the world, finds that its essence is evil, and turns towards insensitive calm.
Generic in this context refers to characteristics that are so fundamental to string theory that they are fairly insensitive to, if not completely independent of, those detailed properties of the theory that are now beyond our theoretical purview.
I am insensitive to the feelings of religionists, or perhaps even anxious to make them seem ridiculous.
To Servilia, however, he was an absolute monster-loud, slow to learn, insensitive, and so pugnaciously quarrelsome that he had been a thorn in the side of his older siblings from the time he began to walk and talk.
We felt grateful to her, and agreed that she must either be very insensitive or have suffered torments in listening to our voluptuous combats.
Elizabeth realized how insensitive she had been, and her cheeks colored with embarrassment.
And if you detect the slightest sign of a coarsening of the intellect, or insensitive or ill-mannered or antisocial behavior, no matter what we say to you or how we excuse it, you tell the security team to pull us out at once.
He was also pigheaded, dogmatic, insensitive, regulation-hedged and so narrowly oriented as to prevent any vestige of imagination or intuitive thinking from coloring his mental processes for a microsecond.
Pupils fixed, body insensitive, and sometimes locked into decorticate postures.
For example, when your partner disappoints you, you may feel angry that he is being insensitive, angry that she is being unappreciative.
Thus we want the critical temperature to be insensitive to the current through the sample.
She told me it was her big chance and I had to be the most insensitive male chauvinist oinker in the United States to be dragging my feet, and furthermore she'd had it with California anyway.
But of course William was a homologist and no one can work with the intricacies of the human brain without growing insensitive as to its details, so he said, „I'm sure this is Anthony, my brother.