insensitively
adverb
insensitively is an adverb meaning “In an insensitive manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does insensitively mean?
adverb
- 1
In an insensitive manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of insensitively
- more insensitively comparative
- most insensitively superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is insensitively?
Insensitively appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Insensitively in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an insensitive manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | insensiblement |
| Spanish | insensiblemente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does insensitively come from?
From insensitive + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).