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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSENS'ATE, a. [L. in and sensus, sense.]
Destitute of sense; stupid; foolish; wanting sensibility.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insentient, insensate] [ant: animate, sentient]
2: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold- blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Late Latin insensatus, from Latin in- + Late Latin sensatus having sense, from Latin sensus sense Date: 15th century 1. lacking sense or understanding; also foolish 2. lacking animate awareness or sensation 3. lacking humane feeling ; brutal • insensately adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 without physical sensation; unconscious. 2 without sensibility; unfeeling. 3 stupid. Derivatives: insensately adv. Etymology: eccl.L insensatus (as IN-(1), sensatus f. sensus SENSE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insensate In*sen"sate, a. [L. insensatus. See In- not, and Sensate.] Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. --Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. --Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Dull, torpid, indifferent, insensible. 2. Stupid, senseless, foolish, destitute of sense. 3. Inanimate, insentient, unconscious, insensible, unperceiving, non-percipient, destitute of sensation or perception.

Moby Thesaurus

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