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undersensitive

undersensitive adjective: insufficiently sensitive.

Adjective

undersensitive (comparative more undersensitive, superlative most undersensitive)

  1. Insufficiently sensitive.
    • They remain oversensitive, continually recoiling from the world, or undersensitive, banging into things, duck-walking through the day as if not entirely aware of their surroundings.2007 June 5, Benedict Carey, “The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive”, in New York Times

Forms of undersensitive

comparativemore undersensitive
superlativemost undersensitive

Origin of undersensitive

From under- + sensitive.

Questions about undersensitive

What does undersensitive mean?
Undersensitive means insufficiently sensitive.
What part of speech is undersensitive?
Undersensitive is an adjective.

Words near undersensitive in the dictionary

  1. undersends
  2. undersense
  3. undersensed
  4. undersenses
  5. undersensing
  6. undersensitive
  7. undersensitivity
  8. undersent
  9. undersequenced
  10. underservant
  11. underservants

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