Associations to the word «Insensate»
Noun
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Wiktionary
INSENSATE, adjective. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
INSENSATE, adjective. Senseless; foolish; irrational.
INSENSATE, adjective. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
INSENSATE, adjective. (medicine) (physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.
INSENSATE, noun. One who is insensate.
INSENSATE, verb. (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
Dictionary definition
INSENSATE, adjective. Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone".
INSENSATE, adjective. Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.