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Definition of insensible : 1. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
2. Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion.
3. Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
4. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; - often used with of or to.

Synonyms:

swinish, sensual, base, unspiritual, vile, sottish, purposeless, witless, wooden, invisible, unaffected, wasted, brutish, bestial, unconcerned, anesthetic, attitude, reasonless, impalpable, knowledge, stolid, unobservable, indiscernible, unresponsive, imperceptible, insensate, superfluous, cold, pointless, nitwitted, coarse, asleep, intangible, unaware, brutal, detached, mindless, brute, beastly, awareness, lascivious, stuporous, bloodless, uninterested, undetectable, unintellectual, incurious, otiose, imbruted, carnal, animal, inappreciable, imponderable, soft-witted, feelings, indistinguishable, unnoticeable

languid, sedentary, paralytic, lethargic, apathetic, passive, listless, languorous, inactive, immobile, stationary, stagnant, reposing, vegetative, dormant, inanimate, lifeless, inert, sluggish, still, static, idle, catatonic, motionless

impervious, unappreciative, unmoved, indifferent, impassive

dopey, slow, lackadaisical, tired, unhurried, benumbed, drooping, lumpish, slothful, torpid, leisurely, lazy, phlegmatic, drugged, indolent, leaden

insentient, unperceptive, soporific, numb, trance-like, dead, aloof, oblivious, dull, anesthetized, senseless, callous, faint, blacked out, swooning, unconscious, unfeeling, comatose, stupid, narcotic, insensitive

incognizant, preoccupied, inattentive, ignorant, uninformed, unobservant, unknowing

Usage examples:

• With these words she fell upon the corpse, happily herself insensible. - "Night and Morning, Volume 3", Edward Bulwer Lytton.
• The blow made me faint, and I must have been insensible much longer than I supposed, but it is not too late! - "Caught in a Trap", John C. Hutcheson.
• " I believed that you were utterly insensible," I gasped. - "First Person Paramount", Ambrose Pratt.