Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
not responsive to physical stimuli;
- Example: "insensitive to radiation"2.
deficient in human sensibility;
not mentally or morally sensitive;
- Example: "insensitive to the needs of the patients"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insensitive \In*sen"si*tive\, a.
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute
sensibility. --Tillotson. --Ruskin.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insensitive
adj 1: not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to
radiation" [ant: sensitive]
2: deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally
sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" [ant:
sensitive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "insensitive":
Philistine, aloof, anesthetic, anesthetized, asleep, benumbed,
blanket, bloodless, boorish, caddish, callous, calloused,
case-hardened, casual, coarse, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
coldhearted, crude, dead, deadened, dull, flinthearted, flinty,
general, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, heartless,
ill-bred, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient,
impervious, imprudent, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent,
indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, indurated, insensate,
insensible, insentient, inured, loutish, louty, nasty,
nonjudgmental, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, offensive,
pachydermatous, promiscuous, proof against, rocky, senseless,
steeled against, steely, stony, stonyhearted, tactless,
thick-skinned, thick-witted, unconcerned, uncritical,
uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscreet,
undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious,
unfeeling, unfelt, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly,
unimpressible, unimpressionable, unladylike, unmerciful,
unmeticulous, unnatural, unparticular, unperceptive, unrefined,
unresponsive, unselective, unsolicitous, unsubtle, unsusceptible,
untactful, vulgar, wholesale