Usually means: Lacking sensation, perception, or awareness.
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  1. insensate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insensate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insensate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insensate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insensate: Vocabulary.com
  6. insensate: Wordnik
  7. insensate: Wiktionary
  8. insensate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. insensate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. insensate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. insensate: Dictionary.com
  12. insensate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Insensate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. insensate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. insensate: Rhymezone
  16. Insensate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. insensate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. insensate: Free Dictionary
  19. insensate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. insensate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
adjective:  Senseless; foolish; irrational.
adjective:  Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
adjective:  (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.
noun:  One who is insensate.
verb:  (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

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