Tranquil vs Insensitive - What's the difference?
tranquil | insensitive | Related terms |
Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
* 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
Calm; without motion or sound.
* 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
Not expressing normal physical feeling
* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
* 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
* 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
Tranquil is a related term of insensitive.
As adjectives the difference between tranquil and insensitive
is that tranquil is free from emotional or mental disturbance while insensitive is not expressing normal physical feeling.tranquil
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
- that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.
Synonyms
* (free from emotional disturbance) calm, peaceful, serene, steady * peacefulAntonyms
* (free from emotional disturbance) agitatedinsensitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive .