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Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

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  1. a. Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
  2. adj. devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
  3. adj. without compunction or human feeling
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. j:100 a devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation s without compunction or human feeling