Insensate

Definition: Insensate

Insensate

Adjective

1. Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone".

2. Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction".

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Date "insensate" was first used: 1500. (references)

Etymology: Insensate \In*sen"sate\, adjective. [Latin expression insensatus. See In- not, and Sensate.]. (references)

Synonyms: Insensate

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.

Insanity

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Interment

Phrase: hic jacet, ci-git; RIP; requiescat in pace; "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep"; "without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown"; "in the dark union of insensate dust"; "the deep cold shadow of the tomb".

Crosswords: Insensate

Latin (irrational).

Albanian

i pashpirt (callous, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, heartless, heavy-handed, soulless), i pandjeshëm (dead, hard-hearted, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, unfeeling), i pandjenjë (cold, cold-hearted, senseless, unconscious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), ‏عديم الحس, ‏عديم الشعور (unfeeling), ‏خلو من الإدراك, ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏بربري (barbarian, barbaric, moorish, savage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

в безсъзнание (comatose, out, senseless, unconscious), неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, injudicious, irrational, reasonless, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), неотзивчив (deaf, impenetrable, impervious, insensible, irresponsive, un-co-operative, unhelpful, unresponsive), неодушевен (dead, inanimate, insensible, insentient, unconscious), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, sorry, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безчувствен (harsh, indurate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stockish, stolid, torpid, unfeeling), безжизнен (breathless, dead, earthy, glassy, inanimate, languid, lifeless, pithless, sapless, set, stone-dead, tuneless). (various references)

Chinese 

� 知觉. (various references)

Farsi 

بیحس (Callous, Impassive, Insensible, Insensitive, Numb, Obtuse, Senseless, Unfeeling), بیحال (Lethargic, Passive, Supine, Torpid), بی فکر (Giddy, Inconsiderate, Thoughtless), بی معنی (Absurd, Hokum, Inept, Irrational, Rigmarole, Unmeaning), بی عاطفه (Callous, Impassive, Inhuman, Insensitive, Obdurate, Stolid, Unfeeling, Unkind). (various references)

French

insensible (insensible, insensitive), insensé (inane, insane), imbécile, barbare. (various references)

German

gefühllos (callous, dead, emotionless, insensible, insensitive, numb, unfeeling, unfeelingly, unsympathetic, unsympathetically). (various references)

Greek 

ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, silly, slap happy, unwise, witless), αναίσθητοσ (callous, cold blooded, impassible, insensitive, insentient, senseless, unconscious, unfeeling). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מר�'יש, חסר תחוש�" (numb, torpid). (various references)

Hungarian

kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, dispiteous, felon, ferocious, grim, hard, heinous, inhuman, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scathing, tigerish, tyrannical), esztelen (beyond reason, brainless, foolish, mindless, preposterous, to be out of one's skull, unreasonable), eszméletlen (comatose, mind-blowing, stuporous, unconscious), érzéstelen (anaesthetic, anesthetic, immovable, impassible, loveless, unloving), érzéktelen (inhuman), érzéketlen (brutish, callous, dead pan, emotionless, have a thick skin, impassible, impassive, impervious, indifferent, inert, inhumane, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numbed, seared, senseless, thick skin, thick-skinned, unaffected, unfeeling, unmoved). (various references)

Italian

inanimato (inanimate, lifeless). (various references)

Pig Latin

insensateay.(various references)

Portuguese

insensível (blind, callous, chill, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint-hearted, flinty, frozen, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic), insensato (brainless, daffy, dippy, foolish, hard-hearted, unwise), inanimado (hard-hearted, inanimate, insentient, kill-time, lifeless, senseless, spiritless), tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), sem sensibilidade (insensible), disparatado (absurd, blundering, crack-brained, crazy, foolish, hard-hearted, inept, irrational, kill-time, nonsensical, preposterous, screwy, senseless). (various references)

Romanian

inuman (inhuman, unnatural), insensibil (callous, cold-hearted, dead, dull, hard-hearted, immune, imperceptible, impervious, indolent, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, obdurate, unfeeling), prostesc (anile, crazy, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, nonsensical, silly, stupid, witless), nesimţitor (casehardened, dull, insusceptible, obdurate, unfeeling), nesãbuit (foolish, hare-brained, harum scarum, hell-bent, mad, rashly, reckless, recklessly, wild), nerealist (visionary, wildcat), nebunesc (crazy, desperate, foolish, lunatic, mad, madman's, nonsensical, reckless, wild), brutal (beastly, boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, rough, roughly, rude, savage, savagely, truculent, violent). (various references)

Russian 

неразумный (ill-judged, imbecile, impolitic, inadvisable, injudicious, unadvised, unreasoning), неодушевленный (dead, inanimate, lifeless), бесчувственный (callous, cold blooded, hardhearted, impassive, insentient, tearless, torpid, unfeeling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stolid, stony, tearless, unfeeling, unsusceptible), bez života (dead alive, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless). (various references)

Spanish

insensible (bloodless, cold-hearted, heartless, imperceptible, impervious, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, pachyderm, pachydermatous, regardless, thick-skinned, unfeeling, unresponsive), insensato (mad, meaningless, senseless, senselessly, wild), inconsciente (insensible, insensitive, insentient, senseless, thoughtless, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unwitting), sin sensato. (various references)

Swedish

okänslig (callous, dead, dull, immune, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, refractory, unfeeling, unresponsive), livlös (dead, fishy, in the doldrums, inanimate, insentient, lifeless), känslolös (cold, impassible, impassive, insentient, uncaring, unfeeling), huvudlös (desperate, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, headless, mindless), dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless), död (below ground, dead, death, decease, decedent, defunct, demise, departure, doom, dying, exit, expiry, fate, late, passing, quietus). (various references)

Thai

ไร้ความรู้สึก. (various references)

Turkish

mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, illogical, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequent, inconsequential, injudicious, irrational, opaque, preposterous, senseless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning, wacky), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, crass, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, soulless, torpid), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved), delice (buggy, bughouse, crazily, insane, madly, maniacally, splitting), aldırışsız (careless, devil may care, gaily, heedless, indifferent, reckless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unobliging). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, silly, unreasonable, wacky, witless), нечутливий (gross, impassible, impassive, insensible, insensitive, non-sensitive, senseless, stockish, unfeeling), неживий (abiotic, dead, inanimate, inorganic, insentient, lifeless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô tri vô giác không cảm xúc; nhẫn tâm điên r�", ngu dại (senseless, stupid). (various references)

in-. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "insensate": insensately. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Insensate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ensenada, ingensate, insensitve, insenuate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antisense.

-1 letter: etesians, insanest, neatness, stanines, teniases, tennises.

-2 letters: easiest, entases, entasis, etesian, inanest, intense, nasties, neatens, sateens, senates, sennets, sennits, sensate, sestina, sestine, siennas, stanine, tansies, tennies, tisanes.

-3 letters: anenst, anises, assent, easies, enates, inanes, innate, insane, insets, neaten, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sateen, satins, seines, senate, sennas, sennet, sennit, sienna, siesta, stains, stanes.

+1 letter: innateness, nativeness.

+2 letters: abstinences, ancientness, animateness, faintnesses, inaptnesses, inessential, inexactness, inseminates, insensately, nastinesses, nattinesses, tawninesses, transiences, unessential.

+3 letters: antisciences, daintinesses, disentangles, exactingness, inchoateness, inessentials, innatenesses, intactnesses, internalises, intimateness, jauntinesses, nativenesses, negativeness, nitrogenases, nonassertive, nonessential, pliantnesses, quaintnesses, reassignment, scantinesses, subtenancies, tangibleness, transiencies, unsteadiness.

+4 letters: acceptingness, amniocenteses, amniocentesis, ancientnesses, animatenesses, antiestrogens, antirecession, astringencies, attentiveness, containerises, containerless, disenchanters, distantnesses, enterokinases, essentialness, exsanguinates, fenestrations, franticnesses, identicalness, inanimateness, incandescents, inexactnesses, initialnesses, insatiateness, instantnesses, intravenouses, intricateness, inviolateness, lastingnesses, misdemeanants, momentariness, naughtinesses, necessitarian, necessitating, necessitation, neurasthenias, neurasthenics, nonessentials, nonresistance, normativeness, obstinateness, painterliness, piquantnesses, plaintiveness, presentations, reassignments, saintlinesses, segmentations, spontaneities, tenaciousness, tentativeness, thinkableness, uncertainness, unearthliness, unhealthiness, valiantnesses.