Insusceptible
[,insә'septәbl]
Definition
(a.) Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Incapable, insusceptive, not susceptible.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SUSCEPTIBLE]
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Definition
adj. not susceptible: not capable of feeling or of being affected—also Insuscep′tive.—n. Insusceptibil′ity.
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Examples
- The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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