unsusceptible
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.səˈsɛp.tə.bəl/
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insusceptible
- The medication proved unsusceptible to the virus, effectively stopping its spread within the body.
Examples
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You are compassionate gentlemen, for the Brewer College Office of Admissions must be as compassionate as it is noble, eminent, munificent, and unsusceptible to flattery.
Fiction book (2002) -
Normally, the relevant choice is between dynamic constitutional interpretation yielding rules that are unsusceptible to democratic correction and creating no rule at all.
Academic text (2010) -
Having established the absence of any such consensus, the Court employed its independent judgment to discern deep national traditions unsusceptible to legislative revision.
Academic text (2010) -
"My point is that things exist which, though impalpable and unsusceptible to the testimony of our senses, are nevertheless capable of exerting an influence over us."
Fiction book (2001) -
Perceived as unsusceptible to the call of the union or the more pervasive blandishments of prostitutes and liquor, pericos got no points for masculine status from either.
Academic text (2002) -
As we have seen, missionaries had little choice in the matter: older, socially adept Igbo speakers were largely unsusceptible to the Christian message in the early years of the Niger Mission, and there was a willingness to put at least some younger people forward as what we might call "test cases" when it was clear that mission education might lead to employment and advancement in the burgeoning colonial system.
Academic text (2000) -
The material used in the construction is unsusceptible to water damage, ensuring the building remains intact during heavy rain.
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She is an unsusceptible person, not easily swayed by peer pressure or media influence.
Synonyms
3
3.9
Not changed or harmed by something and not showing strong feeling
1
7.7
Does not change opinion easily because of what others say
Not likely to be harmed or changed by something
Not likely to be harmed or affected by something
Not affected by other people or things
Antonyms
How Susceptible
Surface Forms
Morphology
unsusceptible = susceptible (transparent) = un + susceptible
A straightforward negation: 'un-' reverses the adjective 'susceptible', yielding 'not susceptible' which B1 learners can infer.
Etymology
The word unsusceptible is made of un- ('not') and susceptible, which comes from a root meaning 'to take' or 'receive', like in capture. So, unsusceptible means 'not easily affected, influenced, or harmed' by something.