- crass
- heartless
- uncaring
- unkind
- unresponsive
- aloof
- bloodless
- coldhearted
- feelingless
- hard
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hardened
- hardhearted
- imperceptive
- incurious
- obtuse
- stony
- tactless
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unconcerned
- unfeeling
- unsusceptible
- anesthetized
- asleep
- benumbed
- dead
- deadened
- immune to
- impervious to
- insensible
- nonreactive
- senseless
- unfeeling
On this page you’ll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insensitive, such as: crass, heartless, uncaring, unkind, unresponsive, and aloof.
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- feeling
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- sensitive
- touched
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How to use insensitive in a sentence
Though Nigel was enthusiastic and determined, he was not insensitive to what was passing in the mind of one he admired and liked.
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The Kinghampstead division remained for some time insensitive to my defection.
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WORDS RELATED TO INSENSITIVE
- asleep
- deadened
- insensible
- insensitive
- unresponsive
- wooden
- careless
- heedless
- ignorant
- imperceptive
- inattentive
- inconsiderate
- indiscriminate
- injudicious
- insensitive
- myopic
- nearsighted
- neglectful
- oblivious
- thoughtless
- unaware
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unperceiving
- unreasoning
- unseeing
- anesthetic
- cold
- coldhearted
- dull
- impassive
- indolent
- insensible
- insensitive
- languid
- lazy
- lifeless
- listless
- passionless
- slow
- sluggish
- spiritless
- torpid
- unemotional
- unkind
- dull
- dulled
- edgeless
- insensitive
- obtuse
- pointless
- round
- rounded
- unsharpened
- dull
- dulled
- edgeless
- insensitive
- obtuse
- pointless
- round
- rounded
- unsharpened
- barbarous
- bloodthirsty
- callous
- ferocious
- gruff
- hard
- harsh
- heartless
- impolite
- inhuman
- insensitive
- merciless
- pitiless
- remorseless
- rough
- rude
- ruthless
- savage
- severe
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- unfeeling
- unmannerly
- unmerciful
- vicious
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callous, cool, detached, disregarding, hardened, en.synonym.one, impenitent, impervious, inattentive, indifferent, insensible, insentient, insusceptible, negligent, obdurate, obstinate, passionless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unresponsive, unsusceptible.
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1 callous, crass, hardened, imperceptive, indifferent, obtuse, tactless, thick-skinned, tough, uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible
2 (with)
to dead to, immune to, impervious to, nonreactive, proof against, unaffected by, unmoved by
Antonyms
1 caring, concerned, perceptive, responsive, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tactful, tender
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
insensitive
1 adj If you describe someone as insensitive, you are criticizing them for being unaware of or unsympathetic to other people’s feelings., (disapproval, Antonym: sensitive)
I feel my husband is very insensitive about my problem.
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insensitivity n-uncount
I was ashamed at my insensitivity towards her.
2 adj Someone who is insensitiveto a situation or to a need does not think or care about it.
usu ADJ to n
Women’s and Latino organizations that say he is insensitive to civil rights.
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insensitivity n-uncount
…insensitivity to the environmental consequences.
3 adj Someone who is insensitiveto a physical sensation is unable to feel it.
usu v-link ADJ to n
He had become insensitive to cold.
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insensitiveadjective
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insensitiveadjective
Not having normal physical feeling
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insensitiveadjective
Not having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic
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unaffected
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insensitiveadjective
not responsive to physical stimuli
«insensitive to radiation»
Antonyms:
highly sensitive, thin-skinned, radiosensitive, irritable, responsive, light-sensitive, photosensitive, alive(p), sensitive, excitable, erogenous, delicate, feisty, oversensitive, nociceptive, touchy, huffy, reactive -
insensitiveadjective
deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
«insensitive to the needs of the patients»
Antonyms:
photosensitive, touchy, light-sensitive, delicate, responsive, excitable, irritable, huffy, nociceptive, thin-skinned, reactive, sensitive, radiosensitive, oversensitive, highly sensitive, feisty, erogenous, alive(p)
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List of paraphrases for «insensitive»:
impervious, unresponsive, callous, numb, indelicate, unsympathetic, indifferent, uncaring, heartless, cold-hearted, unmoved, oblivious, fearless
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Russell Simmons:
Bernie Sanders is over-promising. He’s insensitive to the plight of black people, and what good is it if you don’t take lobbyist money and don’t acknowledge the No. 1 threat to America and to the world is the factory farming lobby because it is poisoning the planet quickly.
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Sean Gunn:
I have regretted them for many years since — not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don’t reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.
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Asra Nomani:
He is insensitive at times with what he says and his proposals are tough, but they reflect a reality of concern people have about an issue that’s killing people from Orlando to Paris.
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Lea Michele:
Whether it was my privileged position and perspective that caused me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at times or whether it was just my immaturity and me just being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused, we all can grow and change and I have definitely used these past several months to reflect on my own shortcomings.
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Sofia Olivas:
I could never imagine being so insensitive especially in a time when it’s obviously not okay, you’re an adult, you know right from wrong.
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