insensate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
insensate
    adj 1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation;
           "insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: {insentient},
           {insensate}] [ant: {animate}, {sentient}]
    2: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-
       blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: {cold},
       {cold-blooded}, {inhuman}, {insensate}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See {In-} not, and
   {Sensate}.]
   Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
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         The silence and the calm
         Of mute, insensate things.               --Wordsworth.
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         The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen.
                                                  --Buckle.
   -- {In*sen"sate*ly}, adv. -- {In*sen"sate*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "insensate":
      abiotic, anarchic, anesthetic, angry, asleep, azoic, benumbed,
      bloodless, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brainless, callous,
      chaotic, dead, deadened, dull, dumb, exanimate, fatuous, foolish,
      frantic, frenzied, furious, hard, headless, hellish, ignorant,
      ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised,
      ill-gauged, ill-judged, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient,
      impolitic, impossible, imprudent, inadvisable, inanimate,
      inanimated, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inert, inexpedient,
      infuriate, injudicious, insensible, insensitive, insentient,
      irrational, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lifeless, mad,
      mindless, misadvised, misguided, mute, myopic, nitwitted,
      nonconscious, nonliving, not bright, numb, numbed, obdurate,
      obtuse, of little brain, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac,
      pea-brained, pin-brained, raging, ravening, raving, reasonless,
      reckless, rip-roaring, rocky, senseless, shortsighted, silly,
      slackminded, slackwitted, soulless, storming, stormy, tempestuous,
      thick-skinned, thick-witted, thoughtless, troublous, tumultuous,
      turbulent, unadvised, unanimated, unconscious, unconsidered,
      undiscerning, unfeeling, unfelt, unforeseeing, ungifted,
      unintellectual, unintelligent, unperceptive, unreasonable,
      unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible,
      unsound, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, uproarious,
      wild, witless

    

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