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Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insensible, nonsentient, unaware
Antonyms: sentient
Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mindless, unreasonable, unwise
Antonyms: none provided
Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: callous, hardhearted, severe, brutal, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved
Antonyms: none provided
Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unreactive, unresponsive
Antonyms: none provided
One who is insensate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- insentient (or insensate) stone
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insentient
Antonyms: none provided
8
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
without compunction or human feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in cold blood
- cold-blooded killing
- insensate destruction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin sensātus Latin īnsēnsātuslbor. English insensate Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēnsātus.
From the substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix).
From Latin īnsēnsātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
անզգա
(anzga)
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Armenian:
անշունչ
(anšunčʻ)
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Bulgarian:
безчувствен
(bezčuvstven)
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Dutch:
gevoelloos
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Finnish:
tunnoton
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Māori:
maurimoe
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Polish:
bez czucia
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Russian:
неодушевлённый
(neoduševljónnyj)
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Spanish:
inconsciente
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Swedish:
livlös
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Turkish:
duygusuz
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Turkish:
ruhsuz
— having no sensation or consciousness
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Armenian:
անիմաստ
(animast)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Armenian:
անկապ
(ankap)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Bulgarian:
неразумен
(nerazumen)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Dutch:
onzinnig
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Finnish:
järjetön
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Finnish:
älytön
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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French:
insensé
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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German:
unsinnig
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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German:
unvernünftig
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Polish:
bezmyślny
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Russian:
неразумный
(nerazumnyj)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Russian:
бессмы́сленный
(bessmýslennyj)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Russian:
глу́пый
(glúpyj)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Russian:
безрассудный
(bezrassudnyj)
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Spanish:
absurdo
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Turkish:
anlamsız
— senseless; foolish; irrational
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Armenian:
անզգամ
(anzgam)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Armenian:
անզգա
(anzga)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Armenian:
դաժան
(dažan)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Armenian:
անկարեկից
(ankarekicʻ)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Bulgarian:
безчувствен
(bezčuvstven)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Dutch:
hardvochtig
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Finnish:
tunteeton
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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German:
empfindungslos
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Portuguese:
desumano
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Portuguese:
inumano
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Russian:
бесчувственный
(besčuvstvennyj)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Russian:
бесчелове́чный
(besčelovéčnyj)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Russian:
жесто́кий
(žestókij)
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Spanish:
inhumano
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Swedish:
känslolös
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Swedish:
okänslig
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
duygusuz
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
katı yürekli
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
kalpsiz
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
umursamaz
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
hissiz
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
gaddar
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Turkish:
kıyıcı
— unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive
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Finnish:
tunnoton
— medicine, physiology: not responsive
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Marathi:
बधीर
(badhīr)
— medicine, physiology: not responsive
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Spanish:
indiferente
— medicine, physiology: not responsive
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Turkish:
duyarsız
— medicine, physiology: not responsive
