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Definition of insensible in English: insensibleadjective ɪnˈsɛnsɪb(ə)lɪnˈsɛnsəb(ə)l 1usually as complement Without one's mental faculties, typically as a result of injury or intoxication; unconscious. （尤指因暴力、酒醉）失去知觉的，不省人事的 they knocked each other insensible with their fists 他们用拳头把对方击得失去知觉。 Example sentencesExamples - Also, if there is a means of rendering an animal insensible before cutting, then surely this is what is required in a compassionate society.
- For those who like stories of brave lads surviving training then doing their bit blowing up bridges, knifing the Hun and drinking themselves insensible while on leave, then this is for you.
- And I thought the whole point of going to the pub was to become insensible.
- They were thrown out of a pony carriage and Sir Watkins Wynn was picked up insensible.
- Although best watched when insensible with drink, The Adventures Of Grey Boab is as shamefully hypnotic as a car crash.
- Away they would go, raping and pillaging around the port, drinking themselves insensible, passing out on the docks, in bars, on the roadway, in the brothels… in fact, anywhere there was enough space to collapse.
- They take me, insensible, up the ladder to their prison and have me tied down in boxes where the winter wind comes in the gaps and freezes them.
- In the summer, Saturday would bring a golf tournament, and the slugging back of cans on the course to maintain his equilibrium, before another night of drinking himself insensible, sometimes accompanied by bed-wetting.
- Nilsen made sure the men he killed were insensible from drink before he strangled them, and wrote tenderly about them after the killing was over.
- Once having imbibed too much liquor he became sleepy and insensible.
- Some are in jail, some are medicated insensible, some are living lives of dangerous poverty.
- I go out and become insensible with drink and end up in hospital.
- This would make me woozy and two glasses would render me insensible.
- He was taken to see the doctors but fell into a coma and was insensible for three months.
- With VeriChip all a crook would have to do is render a holder insensible - hardly difficult in a nightclub - and free drinks are theirs for the night.
- Meanwhile, go read some of the fine blogs at the side there, and I'll just nip off and quietly drink myself insensible in the hiatus.
- At about 9:10 am, two workers were found insensible in their dormitory on Jingyuan Lu.
- The sudden sensory deprivation is not going to render a grown man or even small child insensible and throw them into fits of panic.
- While hypnotized, the client generally hears and remembers much of what is being spoken, is not completely insensible during the session and can freely choose to disregard any suggestions the hypnotherapist makes.
- Apparently, he is a rather high-level alcoholic, insensible between takes, though perfectly clear when required on cam.
Synonyms unconscious, insensate, senseless, insentient, comatose, knocked out, passed out, blacked out, inert, stupefied, stunned numb, benumbed, numbed, lacking feeling, lacking sensation informal out, out cold, out for the count, out of it, zonked (out), dead to the world British informal spark out rare soporose, soporous - 1.1 (of a person or bodily extremity) without feeling; numb.
（尤指身体、肢体末端）麻木的；无感觉的 the horny and insensible tip of the beak 角质的无感觉喙端。 Example sentencesExamples - At the moment, he was almost insensible with fatigue.
- This operation gives not the least pain to the bird, the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the bill.
Synonyms deprived of sensation, without feeling, numbed, benumbed, dead, deadened, desensitized, insensate, senseless, unfeeling
2insensible of/toUnaware of or indifferent to. （对…）毫无察觉的；漠不关心的 they slept on, insensible to the headlight beams 他们继续睡着，未察觉那车前灯的光束。 Example sentencesExamples - Peter Bell is a potter, a lawless, roving man, insensible to the beauty of nature.
- The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
- It doesn't render them unconscious or make them insensible to pain.
- She is utterly insensible to the fact that Henry's scandal might affect her in any way.
- But Gillray is not insensible to the ironies of human existence, and if he is patriotically attached to the values that he believes make his country the superior of its enemies, he is certainly no xenophobe.
- They are insensible to their own external effects, those they produce in other domains.
- Her outstanding flaw is the ability to be totally insensible to the feelings of others.
- The choreography keeps this single-mindedness through the four sections of Lou Harrison's score: often, the dancers seem to work at staying insensible of those nearby, yet their movements coordinate perfectly with others.
- Not a teenybopper in the country was insensible to Charlie Simpson's departure from Busted, and while their hopes soared, critics of the band began to queue up to slate them before they had even touched their instruments.
- By harping constantly only on the scenario in which guns may actually prove to be useful and can legitimately be used, we appear as people who are grossly out of touch with, and insensible to, the real nature and extent of the problem.
- She was quite insensible to the tone in which I had spoken; she went on from bad to worse.
- This normally took the form of an excrescence or area of skin that was insensible to pain.
- Another brother slumped on the floor, insensible to the fact that he was sitting in his mother's blood.
- In the process of impressionistically conveying that Jim seems acted upon by occult forces that render him insensible to reason, Marlow is himself diverted from his narrative intent.
- I sometimes catch myself wondering what the world will be like after I am dead and trying to tell myself that it will not matter because I will be insensible to it.
- Few lads could have been more insensible to the impressions of a life thus passed among the ensigns of mortality.
Synonyms 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 informal in the dark about rare insensitive of, negligent of 3Too small or gradual to be perceived; inappreciable. 不被察觉的；微不可辨的 varying by insensible degrees 以不被察觉的程度改变。 Example sentencesExamples - The small or extremely immature infant < 1000 g will experience increased insensible water losses.
- Dehydration is particularly likely to occur in small children because of decreased intake during an extended period of respiratory distress, combined with increased insensible losses.
- However, there are conditions that may increase so-called insensible losses through sites such as the skin.
- Rieff now contends that such an insensible change has become not a danger but an appalling fact.
Synonyms 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
OriginLate 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. Definition of insensible in US English: insensibleadjectiveinˈsensəb(ə)lɪnˈsɛnsəb(ə)l 1usually as complement Without one's mental faculties, typically a result of violence or intoxication; unconscious. （尤指因暴力、酒醉）失去知觉的，不省人事的 they knocked each other insensible with their fists 他们用拳头把对方击得失去知觉。 喝酒喝得不省人事。 Example sentencesExamples - They were thrown out of a pony carriage and Sir Watkins Wynn was picked up insensible.
- Apparently, he is a rather high-level alcoholic, insensible between takes, though perfectly clear when required on cam.
- Some are in jail, some are medicated insensible, some are living lives of dangerous poverty.
- For those who like stories of brave lads surviving training then doing their bit blowing up bridges, knifing the Hun and drinking themselves insensible while on leave, then this is for you.
- This would make me woozy and two glasses would render me insensible.
- The sudden sensory deprivation is not going to render a grown man or even small child insensible and throw them into fits of panic.
- Also, if there is a means of rendering an animal insensible before cutting, then surely this is what is required in a compassionate society.
- Although best watched when insensible with drink, The Adventures Of Grey Boab is as shamefully hypnotic as a car crash.
- Once having imbibed too much liquor he became sleepy and insensible.
- At about 9:10 am, two workers were found insensible in their dormitory on Jingyuan Lu.
- And I thought the whole point of going to the pub was to become insensible.
- While hypnotized, the client generally hears and remembers much of what is being spoken, is not completely insensible during the session and can freely choose to disregard any suggestions the hypnotherapist makes.
- Away they would go, raping and pillaging around the port, drinking themselves insensible, passing out on the docks, in bars, on the roadway, in the brothels… in fact, anywhere there was enough space to collapse.
- Meanwhile, go read some of the fine blogs at the side there, and I'll just nip off and quietly drink myself insensible in the hiatus.
- They take me, insensible, up the ladder to their prison and have me tied down in boxes where the winter wind comes in the gaps and freezes them.
- He was taken to see the doctors but fell into a coma and was insensible for three months.
- With VeriChip all a crook would have to do is render a holder insensible - hardly difficult in a nightclub - and free drinks are theirs for the night.
- I go out and become insensible with drink and end up in hospital.
- In the summer, Saturday would bring a golf tournament, and the slugging back of cans on the course to maintain his equilibrium, before another night of drinking himself insensible, sometimes accompanied by bed-wetting.
- Nilsen made sure the men he killed were insensible from drink before he strangled them, and wrote tenderly about them after the killing was over.
Synonyms unconscious, insensate, senseless, insentient, comatose, knocked out, passed out, blacked out, inert, stupefied, stunned - 1.1 (especially of a body or bodily extremity) numb; without feeling.
（尤指身体、肢体末端）麻木的；无感觉的 the horny and insensible tip of the beak 角质的无感觉喙端。 Example sentencesExamples - This operation gives not the least pain to the bird, the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the bill.
- At the moment, he was almost insensible with fatigue.
Synonyms deprived of sensation, without feeling, numbed, benumbed, dead, deadened, desensitized, insensate, senseless, unfeeling
2insensible of/topredicative Unaware of or indifferent to. （对…）毫无察觉的；漠不关心的 they slept on, insensible to the headlight beams 他们继续睡着，未察觉那车前灯的光束。 Example sentencesExamples - Another brother slumped on the floor, insensible to the fact that he was sitting in his mother's blood.
- She is utterly insensible to the fact that Henry's scandal might affect her in any way.
- It doesn't render them unconscious or make them insensible to pain.
- She was quite insensible to the tone in which I had spoken; she went on from bad to worse.
- Not a teenybopper in the country was insensible to Charlie Simpson's departure from Busted, and while their hopes soared, critics of the band began to queue up to slate them before they had even touched their instruments.
- In the process of impressionistically conveying that Jim seems acted upon by occult forces that render him insensible to reason, Marlow is himself diverted from his narrative intent.
- This normally took the form of an excrescence or area of skin that was insensible to pain.
- But Gillray is not insensible to the ironies of human existence, and if he is patriotically attached to the values that he believes make his country the superior of its enemies, he is certainly no xenophobe.
- Few lads could have been more insensible to the impressions of a life thus passed among the ensigns of mortality.
- The choreography keeps this single-mindedness through the four sections of Lou Harrison's score: often, the dancers seem to work at staying insensible of those nearby, yet their movements coordinate perfectly with others.
- I sometimes catch myself wondering what the world will be like after I am dead and trying to tell myself that it will not matter because I will be insensible to it.
- They are insensible to their own external effects, those they produce in other domains.
- By harping constantly only on the scenario in which guns may actually prove to be useful and can legitimately be used, we appear as people who are grossly out of touch with, and insensible to, the real nature and extent of the problem.
- Peter Bell is a potter, a lawless, roving man, insensible to the beauty of nature.
- The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
- Her outstanding flaw is the ability to be totally insensible to the feelings of others.
Synonyms unaware of, ignorant of, without knowledge of, unconscious of, unmindful of, mindless of, oblivious to 3Too small or gradual to be perceived; inappreciable. 不被察觉的；微不可辨的 varying by insensible degrees 以不被察觉的程度改变。 Example sentencesExamples - Rieff now contends that such an insensible change has become not a danger but an appalling fact.
- Dehydration is particularly likely to occur in small children because of decreased intake during an extended period of respiratory distress, combined with increased insensible losses.
- The small or extremely immature infant < 1000 g will experience increased insensible water losses.
- However, there are conditions that may increase so-called insensible losses through sites such as the skin.
Synonyms imperceptible, unnoticeable, undetectable, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unapparent, inappreciable, invisible, inaudible, impalpable, unobtrusive, impossible to detect
OriginLate 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- ‘not’ + sensible. |