Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undersensitive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-sen-si-tive
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Insufficiently sensitive.

Example Sentences

"They remain oversensitive, continually recoiling from the world, or undersensitive, banging into things, duck-walking through the day as if not entirely aware of their surroundings."

Etymology

From under- + sensitive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: under

Inflected Forms

more undersensitive (comparative) most undersensitive (superlative)

Questions

What does undersensitive mean?: Insufficiently sensitive.
Where does undersensitive come from?: From under- + sensitive.

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