insensible

From Middle English insensible, from Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛn.sɪ.bl̩/
• Hyphenation: in‧sen‧si‧ble

insensible (comparative more insensible, superlative most insensible)

1. Unable to be perceived by the senses.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:

     Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.

2. Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis‎:

     “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”

3. Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
4. Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
   • 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ

     If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, […] it shall be quashed.

5. Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:

     In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection […]

6. Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.

   Synonym: insensitive

• sensible

• insensibility
• insensibly

• insensitive
• nonsensible
• nonsensical
• insensitive
• senseless
• unsensible
• unsensitive

From Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.sibl/
• Homophone: insensibles

insensible (plural insensibles)

1. insensible
2. impervious
3. unperceivable, imperceptible

   Synonym: imperceptible

• insensiblement

• “insensible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.

• IPA^(key): /insenˈsible/ [ĩn.sẽnˈsi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: in‧sen‧si‧ble

insensible (plural insensibles)

1. insensible, insensitive, callous, cold, tactless

   Antonym: sensible

• insensibilidad
• insensiblemente

• “insensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014