insensible

[ in-sen-suh-buhl ]

adjective

1. incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2. without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation:

   insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.

3. unaware; unconscious; inappreciative:

   We are not insensible of your kindness.

4. not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible:

   insensible transitions.

5. unresponsive in feeling.

   Synonyms: emotionless, torpid, passionless, dull, cool, indifferent, unfeeling, apathetic

6. not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.

   Synonyms: emotionless, torpid, passionless, dull, cool, indifferent, unfeeling, apathetic

7. not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.

insensible

/ ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl /

adjective

1. lacking sensation or consciousness
2. foll byof or to unaware (of) or indifferent (to)

   insensible to suffering

3. thoughtless or callous
4. See imperceptible
   a less common word for imperceptible

Derived Forms

• inˌsensiˈbility, noun
• inˈsensibly, adverb

Other Words From

• in·sensi·bly adverb
• in·sensi·bili·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of insensible¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word insēnsibilis. See in- ³, sensible

Synonym Study

See indifference.

Example Sentences

This is a trial in the court of public opinion, to which the elected Manhattan district attorney is not insensible.

From The Daily Beast

There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.

From Project Gutenberg

From that his mind slipped easily into another question—how she could be so insensible to the pain she caused him?

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In spite of this he never moved a muscle, and lay, as if insensible to feeling, upon the ground.

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He had often been floored by argument and coughed down by contempt, but he seemed alike insensible to sarcasm and to insult.

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I was knocked almost insensible during the fight for the boat so I am not sure what happened during the next few minutes.

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