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insensate adjective [ ɪnˈsɛnseɪt ]

• lacking physical sensation.
• "a patient who was permanently unconscious and insensate"
Similar: unconscious, insensible, senseless, insentient, comatose, knocked out, passed out, blacked out, inert, stupefied, stunned, numb, benumbed, numbed, lacking feeling, lacking sensation, out, out cold, out for the count, out of it, zonked (out), dead to the world, spark out, soporose, soporous,
Opposite: conscious, responsive,
• completely lacking sense or reason.
• "insensate jabbering"
Origin: late 15th century: from ecclesiastical Latin insensatus, from in- ‘not’ + sensatus ‘having senses’ (see sensate).


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