insensate
/ɪnˈsɛn.sət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
adj
adj
adj
Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
noun
One who is insensate.
verb
To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
Example Sentences
- "Since thus divided — equal must it be If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea; It may be both — but one day end it must In the dark union of insensate dust."
- "If I might be Insensate matter With sensate me Sitting within, Harking and prying, I might begin To dicker with dying."
- "[…]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…]"
- "Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth."
- "[…]the romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other."
- "But in his insensate passion for revenge upon one who had all but murdered him, he had forgotten all else but the moment's specious opportunity."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin sensātus Latin īnsēnsātuslbor. English insensate Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēnsātus. By surface analysis, in- + sensate.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: īnsēnsātus
Inflected Forms
more insensate (comparative)
most insensate (superlative)
insensates (plural)
insensates (present, singular)
insensating (participle, present)
insensated (participle, past)
insensated (past)