insensible
IPA: ɪnsˈɛnsʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
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Examples of "insensible" in Sentences
- For those are called insensible who are deficient with regard to pleasures of touch.
- I have other deeds – The Baroness could hear no more; she was carried insensible from the apartment.
- -- From these openings, there constantly passes a vapor, forming what we call the insensible perspiration.
- Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen.
- No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood.
- I begin to understand it: but I confess that the idea of insensible heat is so new and strange to me, that it requires some time to render it familiar.
- No matter what, there are some times that you reasonable be dressed to explain to everyone that you dire term insensible from everybody but that idiosyncratic person.
- For many people, the Explorer is stigmatic of a kind of insensible, big-gut consumerism — it's not an entirely fair impression, but such is the warp and weave of culture.
- It is the extreme mobility of which man is capable, owing to his peculiar organization, that distinguishes him from other beings that are called insensible or inanimate; the different degrees of this mobility, of which the individuals of his species are susceptible, discriminate them from each other; make that incredible variety, that infinity of difference which is to be found, as well in their corporeal faculties, as in those which are mental or intellectual.
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