insentient
not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.
Origin of insentient
1Other words from insentient
- in·sen·ti·ence, in·sen·ti·en·cy, noun
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How to use insentient in a sentence
The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.
Ulysses | James JoyceBut the little tree stood within her arms insentient, quivering only to the long rumbles.
Saint's Progress | John GalsworthyThe last blows fell upon a bloody but insentient mass of flesh.
The King of the Mountains | Edmond AboutDoes not the infant grow into the man by the aggregation of insentient matter assimilated into his being in the shape of food?
Do you mean that the lesser is ever producing the greater; and that in the aggregation of insentient matter life is evolved?
British Dictionary definitions for insentient
/ (ɪnˈsɛnʃɪənt) /
rare lacking consciousness or senses; inanimate
Derived forms of insentient
- insentience or insentiency, noun
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