Dictionary

impercipient en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɪmpəˈsɪpɪənt/ (UK)

Etymology

From im- + percipient.

Meanings

1. Lacking perception; unable to perceive.
   • Nevertheless, his attitude to such plebeian upstarts was lofty and impercipient: not having been introduced to them, he had not the pleasure of their acquaintance, so to speak. 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 215:

Forms

Deriveds

impercipiently