INSENSATE

insentient, insensate

(adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; “insentient (or insensate) stone”

cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate

(adjective) without compunction or human feeling; “in cold blood”; “cold-blooded killing”; “insensate destruction”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

insensate (comparative more insensate, superlative most insensate)

Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.

Senseless; foolish; irrational.

Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.

(medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.

Antonyms

• (having no sensation or consciousness): sentient

Noun

insensate (plural insensates)

One who is insensate.

Verb

insensate (third-person singular simple present insensates, present participle insensating, simple past and past participle insensated)

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

Anagrams

• antisense

Source: Wiktionary

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In*sen"sate, a. Etym: [L. insensatus. See In- not, and Sensate.]

Definition: Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle.

– In*sen"sate*ly, adv.

– In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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