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
And this college course I have sketched should, in the modern state, pass insensibly into adult mental activities.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsHer character became insensibly molded to their forms, and she was inspired with restless enthusiasm to imitate their deeds.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottSo I have had to convey my precepts insensibly to Milord K.—to convey them in homeopathic doses of parable.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonBut also defenders of received doctrine learnt, almost insensibly, very much from its opponents.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonA coldness insensibly crept over him, and inevitably spread.
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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