Insensate Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-sĕnsāt, -sĭt
Completely lacking sensation or consciousness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. insentient
  2. dead
  3. inanimate
Antonyms:
  1. sentient
Indifferent
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. impassive
  2. anesthetic
  3. apathetic
  4. bloodless
  5. dull
  6. cold
  7. insensible
  8. unfeeling
  9. insensitive
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Words Related to Insensate

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Insensate Sentence Examples

  • Speaking next day at a luncheon given in his honour, answering critics who alleged that with more time and patience on the part of Great Britain war might have been avoided, he asserted that what they were asked to "conciliate" was "panoplied hatred, insensate ambition, invincible ignorance."

  • To warn Eugenius against pride, Bernard reminds him in biblical terms that an insensate sovereign on a throne resembles " an ape upon a housetop," and that the dignity with which he is invested does not prevent him from being a man, that is, " a being, naked,!

  • Added to these troubles was the ever-present Turkish peril, which became acute after the king, with insensate levity, arrested the Ottoman envoy Berham in 1521 and refused to unite with Suleiman in a league against the Habsburgs.

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