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
This is a trial in the court of public opinion, to which the elected Manhattan district attorney is not insensible.
Judge Drops Strauss-Kahn Charges | Christopher Dickey, John Solomon | August 22, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThere lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.
From that his mind slipped easily into another question—how she could be so insensible to the pain she caused him?
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodIn spite of this he never moved a muscle, and lay, as if insensible to feeling, upon the ground.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferHe had often been floored by argument and coughed down by contempt, but he seemed alike insensible to sarcasm and to insult.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
I was knocked almost insensible during the fight for the boat so I am not sure what happened during the next few minutes.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
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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