Insensate

/ɪnˈsɛn.sət/ · adjective

Meaning

Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
2. Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.
3. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
4. (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
5. One who is insensate.
6. (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

Example Sentences

Since thus divided — equal must it be If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea; It may be both — but one day end it must In the dark union of insensate dust.

If I might be Insensate matter With sensate me Sitting within, Harking and prying, I might begin To dicker with dying.

[…]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…]

Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.

[…]the romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other.

But in his insensate passion for revenge upon one who had all but murdered him, he had forgotten all else but the moment's specious opportunity.

I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate.

That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.

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• more insensate
• most insensate
• insensates
• insensating
• insensated

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