unperceptive
adjective
un·per·cep·tive
ˌən-pər-ˈsep-tiv 
: lacking perception : not perceptive
an unperceptive analysis
… the antics of characters so unperceptive that no one can possibly care about them past the first hundred pages.—
Jackie Kaufman
Jackie Kaufman
Examples of unperceptive in a Sentence
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He could not be seen, just as the little black boy was not seen, or was seen inaccurately, by the unperceptive and disdainful white boy.
—Louise Glück, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
Memory, conveyed by an unperceptive, mechanically flowing camera, seems disconnected from culture.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
Louise Glück, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
Memory, conveyed by an unperceptive, mechanically flowing camera, seems disconnected from culture.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1668, in the meaning defined above
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“Unperceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unperceptive. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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