Dictionary Definition
insensate adj
1 devoid of feeling and consciousness and
animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insentient] [ant: sentient]
2 without compunction or human feeling; "in cold
blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
cold, cold-blooded,
inhuman]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious.
- 1928, Edna
St. Vincent Millay, "Moriturus,"
- If I might be
- Insensate matter
- With sensate me
- Sitting within,
- Harking and prying,
- I might begin
- To dicker with dying.
- Insensate matter
- If I might be
- 1928, Edna
St. Vincent Millay, "Moriturus,"
- Having no sense; foolish.
Italian
Adjective
insensate pSynonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abiotic, anarchic, anesthetic, angry, asleep, azoic, benumbed, bloodless, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brainless, callous, chaotic, dead, deadened, dull, dumb, exanimate, fatuous, foolish, frantic, frenzied, furious, hard, headless, hellish, ignorant, ill-advised,
ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged,
impassible, imperceptive, impercipient, impolitic, impossible, imprudent, inadvisable, inanimate, inanimated, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inert, inexpedient, infuriate, injudicious, insensible, insensitive, insentient, irrational, lackbrained, lean-minded,
lean-witted, lifeless,
mad, mindless, misadvised, misguided, mute, myopic, nitwitted, nonconscious, nonliving, not bright,
numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, of little brain, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, pea-brained,
pin-brained, raging,
ravening, raving, reasonless, reckless, rip-roaring, rocky, senseless, shortsighted, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, soulless, storming, stormy, tempestuous, thick-skinned,
thick-witted, thoughtless, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unadvised, unanimated, unconscious, unconsidered, undiscerning, unfeeling, unfelt, unforeseeing, ungifted, unintellectual, unintelligent, unperceptive, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsound, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, uproarious, wild, witless