desensitise

Other forms of desensitise

past tense

desensitised·

present participle

desensitising·

third person

desensitises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about desensitise

What does desensitise mean?

desensitise means "cause not to be sensitive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in desensitise?

desensitise has 4 syllables: de-sen-si-tise. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for desensitise?

Close synonyms include desensitize, desensitize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of desensitise?

The recorded antonyms are sensitise.

Is desensitise a common word?

desensitise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.