Usually means: Lacking consideration for others' feelings.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. insensitive: Merriam-Webster
  2. insensitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insensitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insensitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insensitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insensitive, insensitive: Wordnik
  7. insensitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insensitive: Wiktionary
  9. insensitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insensitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insensitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Insensitive, insensitive: Dictionary.com
  13. insensitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. insensitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Insensitive (House), Insensitive (song), Insensitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Insensitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. insensitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. insensitive: Rhymezone
  19. insensitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. insensitive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. insensitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. insensitive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. insensitive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insensitive: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insensitive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See insensitively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
adjective:  Not expressing normal physical feeling.
adjective:  Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.

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