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insensate

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in·sen·sate  (n-snst, -st)
adj.
1.
a. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
b. Unconscious.
2. Lacking sensibility; unfeeling: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" (Peter S. Prescott).
3.
a. Lacking sense or the power to reason.
b. Foolish; witless.
[Latin nsnstus : in-, not; see in-1 + snsus, understanding, reason; see sense.]
in·sensately adv.
in·sensateness n.
insensate
Adjective
1. lacking sensation or consciousness
2. insensitive or unfeeling
3. foolish
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.insensate - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"
insentient
2.insensate - without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
cold-blooded, inhuman, cold
inhumane - lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"


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The act released his physical energies without unfettering his will; his mind was still spellbound, but his powerful body and agile limbs, endowed with a blind, insensate life of their own, resisted stoutly and well.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
and do you think I could stop to consider the feelings of an insensate brute like that, when my own nerves were racked and torn to pieces by his confounded blunders?
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter--the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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