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insensate

[ in-sen-seyt, -sit ]

adjective

  1. not endowed with sensation; inanimate:

    insensate stone.

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  2. without human feeling or sensitivity; cold; cruel; brutal.

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  3. without sense, understanding, or judgment; foolish.

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insensate

/ -sɪt; ɪnˈsɛnseɪt /

adjective

  1. lacking sensation or consciousness
  2. insensitive; unfeeling
  3. foolish; senseless
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԲٱ, adverb
  • ˈԲٱԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ·sٱ· adverb
  • ·sٱ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of insensate1

First recorded in 1510–20, insensate is from the Late Latin word ԲŧԲٳܲ irrational. See in- 3, sensate
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Speaking personally, the terror-fueled adrenaline dump that would have ensued after I read that very first “Do not answer” would have reduced me to an insensate lump.

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It was reptilian, insensate, Coleridge’s monster of “motiveless malignity.”

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In the highest-profile case, four Oklahoma prisoners contended that using midazolam constituted cruel and unusual punishment because it “fails to render a person insensate to pain.”

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“But if midazolam is not capable of maintaining that insensate state, we may well be producing the same feeling in the person being executed.”

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Supreme Court, have maintained that the use of midazolam as the first in a three-drug protocol is likely to render an inmate insensate to pain.

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