adjective
1.
lacking animate awareness or sensation
would often talk to stones and other insensate objects
Synonyms: inanimate, insensible, insentient, senseless, unfeeling
Related Word: exanimate, unanimated; anesthetic, insensitive
Contrasted words: aware, cognizant, conscious; feeling, sensible, sensient
Antonyms: sensate
2.
Synonyms: simple 3, brainless, fatuous, foolish, mindless, nitwitted, senseless, sheepheaded, silly, witless
3.
Synonyms: insensible 5, anesthetic, bloodless, dull, hard, impossible, insensitive, rocky