unsensible

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- +‎ sensible.

Adjective

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unsensible (comparative more unsensible, superlative most unsensible)

  1. Not sensible; silly, foolish.
    • 1921, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Joanna Godden[1]:
      "Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?...
  2. That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
    • 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle[2]:
      There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves.
  3. Out of one's senses; unconscious.

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