insensible
incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible: insensible transitions.
unresponsive in feeling.
not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.
not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.
Origin of insensible
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Other words for insensible
Other words from insensible
- in·sen·si·bly, adverb
- in·sen·si·bil·i·ty, noun
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How to use insensible in a sentence
He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.But the person he addressed was speechless, and after nature was fairly exhausted, he sank down in utter insensibility.
Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows TaylorIda did not shed a tear, but her compressed lips and contracted brow said this did not proceed from insensibility.
Alone | Marion HarlandDown in his heart he was wondering at the insensibility of women in the very things in which men give them the greatest reverence.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonEven her fidelity vexed the unfaithful husband, who seemed to bid her do wrong by stigmatizing her virtue as insensibility.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for insensible
/ (ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl) /
lacking sensation or consciousness
(foll by of or to) unaware (of) or indifferent (to): insensible to suffering
thoughtless or callous
a less common word for imperceptible
Derived forms of insensible
- insensibility or insensibleness, noun
- insensibly, adverb
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