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Word Meanings - INSENSITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

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  • BLUFF-HEADED
    Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
  • BRUTENESS
    1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
  • COARSE
    was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
  • OBTUSE
    1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse
  • INSENSIBLENESS
    Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • EDGELESS
    Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
  • BLUFFNESS
    The quality or state of being bluff.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • BLUNTISH
    Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
  • IMPASSIVE
    Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
  • STOLIDNESS
    See STOLIDITY
  • UNCIVILTY
    In an uncivil manner.
  • BLUFFY
    1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. 2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.
  • UNCIVILITY
    Incivility.
  • COARSELY
    In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
  • APATHETICALLY
    In an apathetic manner.
  • BLUNTLY
    In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
  • IMPOLITE
    Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
  • IMBRUTE
    To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (more info) Etym:
  • HEDGELESS
    Having no hedge.

 

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