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Meanings of insensible in English

Incapable of physical sensation.

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      Barely able to be perceived.

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            Examples for "senseless"
            1
            Ask her a sensible question and you're now guaranteed a senseless answer.
            The Guardian
            2
            Governor Mark Dayton said in a statement: I deplore this senseless violence.
            Reuters
            3
            I thought this encapsulated the intense pain that such senseless violence causes.
            The Guardian
            4
            Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless'.
            The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
            5
            Grettir kicked two of them in the ears and they fell senseless.
            The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga
            1
            Patients: Three families studied; all together, 17 affected and nine unaffected individuals.
            Pubmed
            2
            The underlying operating companies, including Peverel Property Management, continue to operate unaffected.
            The Guardian
            3
            But no one will be unaffected today, said MetService meteorologist April Clark.
            Radio NZ
            4
            But financial markets and the euro were largely unaffected by the data.
            The Irish Times
            5
            Only the borders with the Netherlands and Belgium are as yet unaffected.
            Radio NZ
            Usage of insensible in English
            1
            We raised her up; her colour had strangely darkened; she was insensible.
            Cousin Phillis
            2
            The horsemen dashed over the body of the stunned and insensible Spaniard.
            Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V.
            3
            For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine.
            The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
            4
            Florinda happily was insensible of the tragic scene performed in her presence.
            The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence
            5
            She is by this time in the hands of that insensible boor.
            Damon and Delia: A Tale
            6
            They did not know that their driver lay insensible in the road.
            Out of the Triangle: A Story of the Far East
            7
            Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
            Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
            8
            Suddenly they found that he lay back in the tonneau, quite insensible.
            Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
            9
            Poor Miss Tippit; she is very bad, Miss; I think she's insensible.
            Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
            10
            Schahabarim remained erect, and more insensible than the stones of the terrace.
            Salammbo
            11
            At last the physician fell down on the sward as if insensible.
            Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
            12
            The cobbler lay insensible until he had been found by the patrol.
            Fiddles / 1909
            13
            I myself am insensible to change: I do not admit the charge.
            The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
            14
            Petro lay insensible on the bench, and did not observe the new-comer.
            Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian
            15
            He was terrible in invective, matchless at repartee, and insensible to fear.
            The Abolitionists / Together With Personal Memories Of The Strug...
            16
            The woman was found cold and insensible and with an imperceptible pulse.
            Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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            United Kingdom
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            United States of America
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