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insensible

/in-sen-suh-buhl/US // ɪnˈsɛn sə bəl //UK // (ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl) //

无知者无畏,无知无觉,无知的人,无知觉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
    • : without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
    • : unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
    • : not perceptible by the senses; imperceptible: insensible transitions.
    • : unresponsive in feeling.
    • : not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of any feeling.
    • : not endowed with feeling or sensation, as matter; inanimate.

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Examples

  • This is a trial in the court of public opinion, to which the elected Manhattan district attorney is not insensible.

  • There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.

  • From that his mind slipped easily into another question—how she could be so insensible to the pain she caused him?

  • In spite of this he never moved a muscle, and lay, as if insensible to feeling, upon the ground.

  • He had often been floored by argument and coughed down by contempt, but he seemed alike insensible to sarcasm and to insult.

  • I was knocked almost insensible during the fight for the boat so I am not sure what happened during the next few minutes.