What does unsensible mean?
Unsensible means Not sensible; silly, foolish..
Unsensible
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Not sensible; silly, foolish..
Definitions by Sense
- Not sensible; silly, foolish.
- That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
- Out of one's senses; unconscious.
Example Sentences
"Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?...
There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves.
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Word Forms
- more unsensible
- most unsensible
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"Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?...
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