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insusceptible

/ˌɪnsəˈsɛptəbəl/
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If you're insusceptible to something, you're unlikely to be harmed or affected by it. The comic book hero Superman is famously insusceptible to everything except for Kryptonite; it's the only substance to which he's vulnerable.

If you've had the chicken pox vaccine, you'll be insusceptible to the chicken pox virus, and if you aren't interested in music, you're probablykrypto insusceptible to a particularly poignant, bittersweet melody that makes your friend cry. Kids who are insusceptible to TV commercials don't pay any attention to them (and don't beg their parents for the latest toys).

Definitions of insusceptible
  1. adjective
    not susceptible to
    synonyms: unsusceptible
    insensitive
    not responsive to physical stimuli
    immune, resistant
    relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
    immunised, immunized, vaccinated
    having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease
    immunogenic
    possessing the ability to elicit an immune response
    incapable
    not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of')
    unpersuadable, unsuasible
    not susceptible to persuasion
    unresponsive
    not susceptible to suggestion or influence
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