Explore Insensitive through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like insensible or sensitive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Insensitive meaning
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
- Not expressing normal physical feeling.
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
Synonyms of Insensitive
Using Insensitive
- The main meaning on this page is: Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate. | Not expressing normal physical feeling. | Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
- Useful related words include: insensible, sensitive, unresponsive, desensitised.
- In the example corpus, insensitive often appears in combinations such as: and insensitive, insensitive to, racially insensitive.
Context around Insensitive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 4 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insensitive
- In this selection, "insensitive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wavelength, mode, racially, mode, term and comments stand out and add context to how "insensitive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a racially insensitive term used and a tad insensitive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insensitive" sits close to words such as adolescent, agnes and amp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insensitive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Believe it or not, they are lithography insensitive. (8 words)
How have the “Minutemen” been insensitive culturally or racially? (9 words)
Calling your fiancée your 'second wife' is disrespectful and insensitive. (10 words)
The Minority explained that their decision to walk out was to show President Akufo-Addo that if he is insensitive to the issues affecting Ghanaians they can equally be insensitive to his State of the Nation Address. (37 words)
But we also forget about the tears that resulted from a cruel comment from an insensitive uncle, or the hurt feelings when someone didn't make time to stop by grandma's house. (33 words)
About seven years ago, this woman’s 40-year-old sister stopped talking to their mother, 73, because her sister was sick of their mother making insensitive comments about her family. (31 words)
Do you have a friend or family member who has, as Dictionary.com describes it, “the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements”? (24 words)
How can anyone be so insensitive about the environment especially a company that is supposed to construct a national highway? (20 words)
How can he make such an insensitive statement, why is he mocking Christians? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Minority explained that their decision to walk out was to show President Akufo-Addo that if he is insensitive to the issues affecting Ghanaians they can equally be insensitive to his State of the Nation Address.
Despite relatively high cost, this arrangement has the advantages of being stable, wavelength insensitive, mode insensitive, and offering a large dynamic range.
ABC a racially insensitive term used in the episode “Daddy Robot” after a viewer complained.
About seven years ago, this woman’s 40-year-old sister stopped talking to their mother, 73, because her sister was sick of their mother making insensitive comments about her family.
Advocates said it was a long overdue change to insensitive bureaucracy, while critics warned it could undermine women’s rights and jeopardise single sex spaces.
Believe it or not, they are lithography insensitive.
Brooks, who appears regularly on US network PBS, later expressed regret over the tweet, saying he was trying to make a joke but it was insensitive.
But we also forget about the tears that resulted from a cruel comment from an insensitive uncle, or the hurt feelings when someone didn't make time to stop by grandma's house.
Calling from London, I feel worried about coming across as insensitive, but Ukraine is my home, and these are my fellow citizens, so I care a lot.
Calling your fiancée your 'second wife' is disrespectful and insensitive.
CAN in a statement on Monday, had said it was considering sanctioning such an insensitive act, including asking its members and well meaning Nigerians to boycott the product.
Disagree with someone on the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.
Do you have a friend or family member who has, as Dictionary.com describes it, “the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements”?
He will confront those sentiments head on, aides say, while at the same time trying to avoid sounding insensitive to Americans' concerns.
How can anyone be so insensitive about the environment especially a company that is supposed to construct a national highway?
How can he make such an insensitive statement, why is he mocking Christians?
However, he should have had the foresight to recognize that doing so mere moments after announcing the layoffs of thousands would seem a tad insensitive.
How have the “Minutemen” been insensitive culturally or racially?
I meant no disrespect to Tua or the Carmona family at all, but that was totally bad timing and insensitive by me.
It comes after viewers branded YouTube star Nella Rose 'insensitive' after she told Sam to 'calm down' earlier this week.
Common combinations with insensitive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and insensitive 26×
- insensitive to 23×
- racially insensitive 21×
- insensitive and 18×
- an insensitive 14×
- being insensitive 11×
- as insensitive 10×
- culturally insensitive 10×
- insensitive comments 7×
- insensitive or 7×