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insensate

  (ĭn-sĕn'sāt', -sĭt) pronunciation
adj.
    1. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
    2. Unconscious.
  1. Lacking sensibility; unfeeling: “a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal” (Peter S. Prescott).
    1. Lacking sense or the power to reason.
    2. Foolish; witless.

[Latin īnsēnsātus : in-, not; see in–1 + sēnsus, understanding, reason; see sense.]

insensately in·sen'sate'ly adv.
insensateness in·sen'sate'ness n.
 
 
Thesaurus: insensate

adjective

  1. Completely lacking sensation or consciousness: dead, inanimate, insentient. See live/die.
  2. Lacking passion and emotion: anesthetic, bloodless, dull, insensible, insensitive. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, feelings.
  3. Displaying a complete lack of forethought and good sense: brainless, fatuous, foolish, mindless, senseless, silly, unintelligent, weak-minded, witless. See ability/inability, planned/unplanned.

 
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Lacking awareness; inanimate or unconscious..

pronunciation When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane’s rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensa — Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author.

 
WordNet: insensate
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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
  Synonym: insentient

Meaning #2: without compunction or human feeling
  Synonyms: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman


 
Translations: Translations for: Insensate

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - følelsesløs, ufølsom, livløs, død, brutal, tåbelig, ufornuftig

Nederlands (Dutch)
gevoelloos, ongevoelig, onbewust, dom, onzinnig, wreed

Français (French)
adj. - insensible, insensé, inanimé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - gefühllos, empfindungslos, unvernünftig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - άψυχος

Italiano (Italian)
insensato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - inanimado, insensível

Русский (Russian)
бесчувственный, неумный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - insensato

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - död, känslolös, brutal, okänslig, meningslös, dåraktig

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
无感觉的, 无生命的, 迟钝的

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 無感覺的, 無生命的, 遲鈍的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 감각이 없는, 비정한, 이성이 결여된

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 感覚を持たない, 人間味のない, 理性を失った

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) خال من الحس والإدراك, أحمق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חסר תחושה, טיפשי, ערל-לב, נטול-רגש‬


 
 

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