Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not susceptible to or admitting of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not susceptible; insusceptible: as, unsusceptible of stain.
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- adjective Not
susceptible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not susceptible to
Etymologies
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Examples
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That out of the sea were born either, no one name unsusceptible.
I heard you singing in the bedrooms Jerry Ratch 2011
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Last night we had the unexpected bonus of Trudie Styler popping in to play Mrs Thrale, who charmed the normally unsusceptible hero.
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It was the rare mundane who was totally unsusceptible to their influence.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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Can one fix some exquisite entity, as it were, in amber, immune from changing fashion and unsusceptible to the contamination of the whims of the insistent rich?
Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations 2010
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So I think a lot of the intolerance we encounter with regard to sleep is about control issues, as we say, ways of telling ourselves we're in control of something that is frighteningly unsusceptible to control.
'Insomniac' 2008
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The U.S. may be encouraged by allies and commentators again, at the point that sanctions are judged to be ineffective (or if the U.N. Security Council can't even agree on sanctions), to talk directly with the Iranians, but talking to the Iranians will still mean negotiating give-and-take (and negotiating with a strengthened Iran that has either proven unsusceptible to sanctions, or proven that the world is not united against it).
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That an appeal from an undereducated prettyboy would work on them more than their own NYT-readin ', independent-thinkin', unsusceptible-liberal-considered-opinion-actin 'selves is a much greater insult.
SeeLight: 2006
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That an appeal from an undereducated prettyboy would work on them more than their own NYT-readin ', independent-thinkin', unsusceptible-liberal-considered-opinion-actin 'selves is a much greater insult.
Brad Pitt and Envy 2006
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Cold as he was, and wretched as he declared himself to be, he was not wholly unsusceptible of attachments.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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The only question now agitated is, whether the author of nature has formed primordial parts unsusceptible of division, or if all is continually dividing and changing into other elements.
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