insensible
adjective
[ ɪnˈsɛnsɪb(ə)l ]
• without one's mental faculties, typically as a result of injury or intoxication; unconscious.
• "they knocked each other insensible with their fists"
Similar:
unconscious,
insensate,
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,
• unaware of or indifferent to.
• "they slept on, insensible to the headlight beams"
Similar:
unaware of,
ignorant of,
without knowledge of,
unconscious of,
unmindful of,
mindless of,
oblivious to,
indifferent to,
impervious to,
deaf to,
blind to,
careless of,
unmoved by,
untouched by,
unaffected by,
unresponsive to,
in the dark about,
insensitive of,
negligent of,
• too small or gradual to be perceived; inappreciable.
• "varying by insensible degrees"
Similar:
imperceptible,
unnoticeable,
undetectable,
indistinguishable,
indiscernible,
unapparent,
inappreciable,
invisible,
inaudible,
impalpable,
unobtrusive,
impossible to detect,
slight,
small,
subtle,
faint,
fine,
inconsequential,
negligible,
tiny,
minute,
minuscule,
microscopic,
nanoscopic,
infinitesimal,
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the senses ‘unable to be perceived’ and ‘incapable of physical sensation’): partly from Old French insensible (from Latin insensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + sensibilis, from sensus ‘sense’), partly from in-1 ‘not’ + sensible.
