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Insensible   /ɪnsˈɛnsəbəl/   Listen
Insensible

adjective
1.
Incapable of physical sensation.  "Insensible earth"
2.
Unaware of or indifferent to.  Synonym: unaffected.
3.
Barely able to be perceived.  Synonyms: indiscernible, undetectable.  "An almost insensible change"
4.
Unresponsive to stimulation.  Synonym: senseless.  "Drugged and senseless"





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"Insensible" Quotes from Famous Books



... comatose, insensible, The flunkeys and the chamberlains all slumbered like the dead, And snored so loud and mournfully, That Charming passed them scornfully And came to where a princess lay asleep upon a bed. She was so extremely ...
— Grimm Tales Made Gay • Guy Wetmore Carryl
... and they say lies sick and sorrowful for my worthless sake! But I will soon cheer him—the news of my happiness and advancement will make him young again. And that I may cheer him the sooner"—she wiped her eyes as she spoke—"I must be cheerful myself. My lord must not find me insensible to his kindness, or sorrowful, when he snatches a visit to his recluse, after so long an absence. Be merry, Janet; the night wears on, and my lord must soon arrive. Call thy father hither, and call Varney also. I cherish resentment against neither; ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... their front as their officers rode among them in the vain endeavor to hold them to the hopeless effort; and then they turned and vanished into the deep recesses of the forest whence they came. Not as they came, however, but as a flying multitude of panic-stricken men, insensible to authority, conscious only of their ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... it can reach her ear, this is beyond hearing sound. The thunder of heaven could not awake Mrs Clancy from the sleep into which she has fallen. For it is no momentary unconsciousness, but the cold insensible slumber of Death. ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... really did care for him she did not know, till one day she saw him being carried into the village with a white face and blood-stained garments. He had been out turtle-fishing, the canoe had capsized on the reef, and Adair had been picked up insensible by his native companions, with a broken arm and a deep jagged cut at the back ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke


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