Insensate
[ɪn'senseɪt;-sət] or [ɪn'sɛnsɪt]
Definition
(a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dull, stupid, insensible, senseless.
Editor: Nancy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Brute, insensitive, insensible, unfeeling, stolid, insusceptible,unimpressible
ANT:Sensitive, feeling, quick, sagacious, discriminating, observing, susceptible,acute, impressible
Typist: Sam
Definition
adj. void of sense: wanting sensibility: stupid.—n. Insen′sateness the state of being insensate or destitute of sense: insensibility.
Editor: William
Examples
- O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, Behold! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I kept, then, both my box and my countenance, and sat insensate as any stone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They drive the nail into the flesh, thinking they are hammering away at insensate stone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: William