Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not susceptible: insusceptible to bribery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not susceptible. Incapable of being moved or affected in some way or by something: with of.
- Not liable to be moved or affected by something: with to.
Wiktionary
- adj. Impossible or difficult to effect; not susceptible.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not susceptible to
Examples
“If social conflict splits us, we diagnose a communication problem, a semantic setback on the road to common ground, a gap that can be bridged by consensus on facts and deliberation on goals; it's just too painful to think that tribal values impervious to rationality and insusceptible to compromise are the ineluctable driver of our divisions.”
The Huffington Post: Marty Kaplan: Pessimism Is the Last Taboo
“It is a disconcerting, even radical book, and its central subject, as in much of Warner's work, is the inherent strangeness of the self, resistant to control, insusceptible to coercion, demanding one way or another to be discovered and demanding more after that.”
“Because you cannot, for your statement "... those oxymorons who make it their" morally superior "business to offend ..." is, I would contend, insusceptible of having any meaning spelled out on its behalf.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Enter Saphho Ritsos, the Trust operative who, based on her namesake, is intended to be insusceptible to Cankar's irresistible manly charms - the result of him producing "eleven times as many pheromones as ordinary males.”
“He explained the rationale for such financing: An article of property, insusceptible of division at all, or not without great diminution of its worth, is sometimes of so large value that no purchaser can be found ...”
“Naturally insusceptible, however, of fear, he crossed himself, and stoutly demanded of the Saracen an account of the pedigree which he had boasted.”
“Justice Story echoed the sentiments of Thomas Jefferson in his Bill for Religious Freedom in 1777 in which he stated that "Almighty God" (El Shaddai in Hebrew) "hath created the mind free and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint.”
“Some natural defect perhaps makes you insusceptible in spite of yourself?”
“However, most political conspiracy theories are insusceptible of proof.”
“It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘insusceptible’.
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Adjectives
impressive growth, significant, outstanding, an AILING person ..., sick, a HUMBLE person -..., DISARMING critics..., VAIN - напрасный,..., unavailing, IGNOMINOUS - пост..., shameful, ignoble and 34 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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phil vocab 2
tribunal, inculcation, confounds, indisputable, susceptible, faculty, hypothetical, heterogeneous, homogeneous, convention, fluctuation, incontinent and 38 more...
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