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
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.
• (having no sensation or consciousness): sentient
insensate (plural insensates)
One who is insensate.
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.
• antisense
Source: Wiktionary
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
9 January 2025
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
