Insensate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See {In-} not, and
     {Sensate}.]
     Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The silence and the calm


           Of mute, insensate things.               --Wordsworth.
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           The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen.
                                                    --Buckle.
     -- {In*sen"sate*ly}, adv. -- {In*sen"sate*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "insensate":
     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