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English Dictionary: insensate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
insensate
adj
  1. devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"
    Synonym(s): insentient, insensate
    Antonym(s): animate, sentient
  2. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold- blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
    Synonym(s): cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See {In-} not, and
      {Sensate}.]
      Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
  
               The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.
  
               The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen.
                                                                              --Buckle.
      -- {In*sen"sate*ly}, adv. -- {In*sen"sate*ness}, n.
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