Dictionary entry

Insensate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.