insensate
pronunciation
How to pronounce insensate in British English:
UK [ɪn'senseɪt]
How to pronounce insensate in American English:
US [ɪnˈsɛnˌset, -sɪt]
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- Adjective:
- devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
- without compunction or human feeling
Word Origin
- insensate (adj.)
- 1510s, from Late Latin insensatus "irrational, foolish," from Latin in- "not" (see in- (1)) + sensatus "gifted with sense" (see sensate). Insensate means "not capable of feeling sensation," often "inanimate;" insensible means "lacking the power to feel with the senses," hence, often, "unconscious;" insensitive means "having little or no reaction to what is perceived by one's senses," often "tactless."
Example
- 1. I devote all that I can sense to insensate existence .
- 2. She lay there as insensate as a log .
- 3. Insensate as fat hath been their heart , I -- in thy law I have delighted .
- 4. In the world war the german jews had a record of insensate loyalty to the kaiser .
- 5. A predatory , insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal .