INSENSATE


Meaning of INSENSATE in English

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

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