insensitive

Adjective

insensitive (comparative more insensitive, superlative most insensitive)

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.

   Synonyms:

   ruthless, uncompassionate, unsensitive

   Antonyms:

   compassionate, ruthful, sensitive

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.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   anesthetic, insensate, insensible, unsensitive, dead

   Antonyms:

   sensate, sensitive

3. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
   • 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.1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
   • Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)

   Synonyms:

   harsh, rude, unsensitive, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious, crude

   Antonyms:

   sensitive, tactful, warm

4. Unreceptive, indifferent; displaying little openness or receptivity.
   • This early rigidification and satisfaction with his own conclusions made him insensitive to new political and philosophical ideas.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...