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# insensitive

«insensitive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not noticing or caring about other people's feelings…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (insensitive, more insensitive); noun «insensitivity»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not noticing or caring about other people's feelings; saying or doing hurtful things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#m1)

2) Not able to feel or react to something: insensitive to pain, insensitive to light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE lessons, an insensitive comment (about someone's looks, family or loss) hurts even if it wasn't meant to. In science, a measuring device or body part may be insensitive to small changes. Phrases: an insensitive remark, insensitive to, culturally insensitive.

### examples

- Laughing at her haircut was insensitive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x1)
- It was insensitive to talk about the party in front of the boy who wasn't invited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x2)
- Some fish are insensitive to cold water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x3)
- The old scales were insensitive to tiny weights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x4)
- I'm sorry; that was an insensitive thing to say. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x5)
- Being insensitive to pain can be dangerous, because pain warns us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/#x6)

### note

Opposite: «sensitive». Usually followed by «to». Being insensitive is often by accident; saying sorry and listening helps.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «insensitive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insensitive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.