Insensate

Quick meaning: Insensate is an adjective meaning Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.

Meaning

Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.

More Meanings

1. Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.
2. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
3. (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
4. One who is insensate.
5. (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

Example Sentences

I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate.

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

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;—[…]

Word Forms

• insensates
• insensating
• insensated

Synonyms for insensate

Depending on context, synonyms include insensible, unaware, mindless, unreasonable, unwise, callous.

Antonyms for insensate

Common opposites include sentient.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include insentient, unfeeling, inhumane, inhuman, cold, cold-blooded.

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