insensible
Meanings
Adjective
- incapable of physical sensation
- "insensible to pain"
- "insensible earth"
Adjective Satellite
- unaware of or indifferent to
- "insensible to the suffering around him"
- barely able to be perceived
- "an almost insensible change"
- unresponsive to stimulation
- "he lay insensible where he had fallen"
Adj
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English insensible, from Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.
Synonyms
abstruse, adiaphroistic, alexithymic, anesthetic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, Chinese, clinical, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cool, dead inside, dense, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, enervated, enigmatic, fathomless, gallionic, Greek, halfhearted, heartless, immovable, impassible, impassive, impenetrable, imperceivable, imperceptible, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, indifferent, indiscernible, ineffable, ineffervescible, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insoluble, insolvable, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lotophagous, lukewarm, mopey, mysterious, nonchalant, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonplussed, nonsentimental, nonunderstandable, obscure, phlegmatic, pococurante, pointless, retruse, senseless, shiftless, spiritless, stolid, supine, tepid, thick, torpedinous, torpid, unaffected, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, undecipherable, undetectable, undiscoverable, undistinguishable, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexplainable, unfathomable, unfeeling, ungraspable, unimpressible, unintelligible, uninterested, unknowable, unlively, unmovable, unmoved, unpassionate, unperceivable, unsensitive, unsentimental, untouched, ununderstandable, unzealous, world-weary
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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