Insensate Definition

ĭn-sĕnsāt, -sĭt
adjective
Lacking sensation; not feeling, or not capable of feeling, sensation; inanimate.
Webster's New World
Unconscious.
American Heritage
Without sense or reason; foolish; stupid.
Webster's New World
Lacking sensibility; without regard or feeling for others; cold; insensitive.
Webster's New World
Foolish; witless.
American Heritage
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noun
One who is insensate.
Wiktionary
verb

(rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Insensate

Noun

Singular:
insensate
Plural:
insensates

Origin of Insensate

  • Latin īnsēnsātus in- not in–1 sēnsus understanding, reason sense

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin īnsēnsātus.

    From Wiktionary

Insensate Sentence Examples

  • Speaking next day at a luncheon given in his honour, answering critics who alleged that with more time and patience on the part of Great Britain war might have been avoided, he asserted that what they were asked to "conciliate" was "panoplied hatred, insensate ambition, invincible ignorance."

  • To warn Eugenius against pride, Bernard reminds him in biblical terms that an insensate sovereign on a throne resembles " an ape upon a housetop," and that the dignity with which he is invested does not prevent him from being a man, that is, " a being, naked,!

  • Added to these troubles was the ever-present Turkish peril, which became acute after the king, with insensate levity, arrested the Ottoman envoy Berham in 1521 and refused to unite with Suleiman in a league against the Habsburgs.

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