Definitions for insensate

insensate in·sen·sate

Spelling: [in-sen-seyt, -sit]
IPA: /ɪnˈsɛn seɪt, -sɪt/

Insensate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in insensate (aeeinnsst).

Definitions for insensate

adjective

  1. not endowed with sensation; inanimate:
  2. without human feeling or sensitivity; cold; cruel; brutal.
  3. without sense, understanding, or judgment; foolish.

Origin of insensate

First recorded in 1510-20, insensate is from the Late Latin word insēnsātus irrational. See in-3, sensate

Examples for insensate

More than once he had hoped the insensate fury of the blizzard might abate.

One of his complaints was that his wife was mute and insensate, and sat silent at his board.

She could not explain a devotion that instigated her to an insensate course.

Regret at their insensate rage is sure to succeed all such outbreaks.

How different dear Mr. Hutton's hand was from its dull, insensate image!

It was insensate folly on his part, ridiculous from any point of view.

He was “overwhelmed by the feeling” that “the Suffolk expanses” had “shrunk once and for all to a single, blind, insensate spot.”

It was hardly more now, as the Lady plodded on, than an insensate log.

Then an insensate wish to stab him to the heart made her turn her head and look at him.

The optic nerve is a shrunken, atrophied and insensate thread.

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