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Insusceptible

Insusceptible \In`sus*cep`ti*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + susceptible: cf. F. insusceptible.] Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery; new strains of bacteria insusceptible to penicillin. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

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insusceptible

a. Not susceptible.

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insusceptible

adj. not susceptible to [syn: unsusceptible] [ant: susceptible]

Usage examples of "insusceptible".

The subject, in its present state, is insusceptible of being treated otherwise than lyrically, and if I have called this poem a drama from the circumstance of its being composed in dialogue, the licence is not greater than that which has been assumed by other poets who have called their productions epics, only because they have been divided into twelve or twenty-four books.

E emanates an auratic force field that renders em invulnerable, and apparently also insusceptible to sympathy or pain.

The atmosphere of such a town would be like that of the country, insusceptible of the miasmata which produce yellow fever.

Fortunately I do not use quite the same thought routines as Edenist habitats, so I am relatively insusceptible.

The state of consciousness becomes then insusceptible of any verbal description.