Difference between Dead and Insensitive

What is the difference between Dead and Insensitive?

Dead as an adjective is no longer living. while Insensitive as an adjective is not having normal physical feeling

Dead

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. Those who have died.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: No longer living. Figuratively, not alive; lacking life be dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored. Without emotion. Stationary; static. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. Unproductive. Completely inactive; without power; without a signal. Broken or inoperable. No longer used or required. Not in play. Full and complete. Exact. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Exactly right. Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to prevent by disabling; stop

Example sentence: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Insensitive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not having normal physical feelingnot having normal emotional feelings, cold, tactless, undiplomatic

Example sentence: When the mayor of Sao Paulo wanted to increase bus fare by 21 centavos in 2013, the country erupted in the largest mass protests in its history. It wasn't a dramatic hike - just nine cents - but a perfect symbol of the increasing burdens on the working poor, forced to fend with an inadequate system, insensitive to their plight.

We hope you now know whether to use Dead or Insensitive in your sentence.

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