Word.ws English Dictionary

case insensitive

case insensitive adjective: treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.

Adjective

case insensitive (not comparable)

  1. Treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.
    Antonyms:
    case sensitive

Synonyms of case insensitive

Antonyms

Forms of case insensitive

alternative formcase-insensitive

Questions about case insensitive

What does case insensitive mean?
Case insensitive means treating or interpreting upper- and lowercase letters as being the same.
What part of speech is case insensitive?
Case insensitive is an adjective.

Words near case insensitive in the dictionary

  1. case histories
  2. case history
  3. case in chief
  4. case in point
  5. case independent
  6. case insensitive
  7. case knife
  8. case knives
  9. case law
  10. case laws
  11. case mix

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: case insensitive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-case insensitive.ogg.

Cite this entry: “case insensitive.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/case_insensitive. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.