Although they had been online for six months, john felt some trepidation about meeting luisa face to face. Past girlfriends had called him insensitive, and one even claimed he was thoughtless. In these two sentences, what word provides a clue to the meaning of insensitive?

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Fiona Olsen

3 July, 15:42

Although they had been online for six months, john felt some trepidation about meeting luisa face to face. Past girlfriends had called him insensitive, and one even claimed he was thoughtless. In these two sentences, what word provides a clue to the meaning of insensitive?

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Brooklyn Ballard · Answer 1

The word that provides on the meaning of insensitive is the word "thoughtless"

Explanation:

This question is to test your knowledge of synonyms. Two words are synonyms when they can be used in the place of each other. They have almost the same meanings. In the two sentences outlined, the word closest in meaning to insensitive is thoughtless. Let me outline their different definitions to confirm this:

insensitive: is an adjective meaning " showing or having no concern for others", while

thoughtless: has several meanings, but the one closest to insensitive is "being inconsiderate".

To understand more synonyms of words, always use the dictionary or a thesaurus.