Definitions for insentient

insentient in·sen·ti·ent

Spelling: [in-sen-shee-uh nt, -shuh nt]
IPA: /ɪnˈsɛn ʃi ənt, -ʃənt/

Insentient is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in insentient (eeiinnnstt).

Definitions for insentient

adjective

  1. not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.

Origin of insentient

First recorded in 1755-65; in-3 + sentient

Examples for insentient

A moment ago she had been an insentient atom sunk deep in impenetrable night; now she was herself—and it was broad daylight.

As for the dead man, he read his epitaph in a phrase, accompanied by a meaning nod toward the disfigured and insentient head.

It must be remembered that we are dealing with human beings and not with insentient figures.

He knelt, compassion gentling his heart, and put one hand to the insentient face.

Do you mean that the lesser is ever producing the greater; and that in the aggregation of insentient matter life is evolved?

The last blows fell upon a bloody but insentient mass of flesh.

On his feet, straddling Mulready's insentient body, he confronted Calendar and Stryker.

But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient.

The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.

Yvonne unresisting, insentient, went whither she was bidden to go.

Word Value for insentient
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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