insensate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
    insentient.
    • insentient (or insensate) stone
  2. adjective satellite without compunction or human feeling
    cold; inhuman; cold-blooded.
    • in cold blood
    • cold-blooded killing
    • insensate destruction

WordNet

In*sen"sate adjective
Etymology
L. insensatus. See In- not, and Sensate.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913