EnglishMain Dictionary
insensitive
Universal Words
adjective ~ (to sth)
1 not realizing or caring how other people feel, and therefore likely to hurt or offend them:
an insensitive person / remark * She's completely insensitive to my feelings.
2 not aware of changing situations, and therefore of the need to react to them:
The government seems totally insensitive to the mood of the country.
3 not able to feel or react to sth:
insensitive to pain / cold * He seems completely insensitive to criticism.
OPPSENSITIVE
insensitively adverb:
The police handled the matter extremely insensitively.
insensitivity noun [U]
