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PRONUNCIATION OF INSENSATE

insensate  [ɪnˈsɛnseɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INSENSATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Insensate is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INSENSATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of insensate in the English dictionary

The first definition of insensate in the dictionary is lacking sensation or consciousness. Other definition of insensate is insensitive; unfeeling. Insensate is also foolish; senseless.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INSENSATE


ansate
ˈænseɪt
compensate
ˈkɒmpɛnˌseɪt
condensate
kənˈdɛnseɪt
decompensate
diːˈkɒmpɛnˌseɪt
decussate
dɪˈkʌseɪt
ensate
ˈenseɪt
extravasate
ɪkˈstrævəˌseɪt
fissate
ˈfɪseɪt
fixate
ˈfɪkseɪt
hydrolysate
haɪˈdrɒlɪˌseɪt
intensate
ɪnˈtɛnseɪt
luxate
ˈlʌkseɪt
lysate
ˈlaɪseɪt
methotrexate
ˌmɛθəʊˈtrɛkseɪt
overcompensate
ˌəʊvəˈkɒmpɛnˌseɪt
pertusate
pəˈtjuːseɪt
pulsate
pʌlˈseɪt
sate
seɪt
sensate
ˈsɛnseɪt
tergiversate
ˈtɜːdʒɪvəˌseɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INSENSATE

inseem
inselberg
inselberge
inseminate
insemination
inseminator
insensately
insensateness
insensibility
insensible
insensibleness
insensibly
insensitive
insensitively
insensitiveness
insensitivity
insensuous
insentience
insentiency
insentient

WORDS THAT END LIKE INSENSATE

apophysate
autolysate
bursate
dialysate
improvisate
incrassate
inspissate
irisate
marquessate
marquisate
paraglossate
paraphysate
perfusate
pyrolysate
vulcanisate

Synonyms and antonyms of insensate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INSENSATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «insensate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of insensate

Translation of «insensate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INSENSATE

Find out the translation of insensate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of insensate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «insensate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无感觉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insensate
570 millions of speakers

English

insensate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेसुध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فاقدين الشعور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безумная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

insensate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিসাড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insensé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berpengalaman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gefühllos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無感覚な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무감각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Insensate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không cam động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்வு அற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असंवादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hissiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inanimato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czucia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

божевільна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nesăbuit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανόητος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gevoelloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

insensate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

insensate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of insensate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENSATE»

The term «insensate» is regularly used and occupies the 75.626 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INSENSATE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about insensate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSENSATE»

Discover the use of insensate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to insensate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Insensate
A quest that takes him to the very reaches of reality - and beyond. He begins to discover the incredible story of his origin and his particular significance to the people of his world and others.
Rob Pomeroy, 2006
2
Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults: Two Volumes Plus ...
In the face of no sensory return, orthopaedic surgeons have successfully demonstrated the ability to care for the insensate foot in other conditions ( diabetes or incomplete spine lesions) through education and shoe modifications. Furthermore ...
Robert W. Bucholz, 2012
3
Surgical Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves
She developed such a severe sore in her insensate sole of foot that below knee amputation was necessary. the deformity is still supple. Rigid proximal interphalangeal joints (PIPJ) are excised if the MTPJ are still supple. In the last stages of ...
Rolfe Birch, 2011
4
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness
Mel Y. Chen, 2012
5
Fundamentals of Hand Therapy: Clinical Reasoning and ...
Educate the client in ways to protect the insensate hand or the hand with diminished sensation. Decompression of the Median Nerve Operative Treatment Surgical exploration and release is done if there is no spontaneous recovery in 8 to 12 ...
Cynthia Cooper (CHT.), 2007
6
On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios
There are circumstances in which this might be a preferred tactic, although normally this tactic is associated with an uncontrolled or insensate war-—blind and irrational. There are two basically different kinds of controlled war—the controlled ...
Herman Kahn, 2009
7
Foot and Ankle
In the insensate foot, abnormally high pressures are not required to create ulcerations. Instead, ordinarily tolerable pressures repeated frequently may exceed the threshold for ulceration. This "repetitive moderate stress" leads to ulceration as ...
David B. Thordarson, 2004
8
The Role of Cutaneous Innervation in the Sensory ...
In addition, human diabetic and nondiabetic subjects were recruited and tested for measures of sensory nerve fiber function and evaluated for cutaneous nerve fiber density.
Megan S. Johnson, 2008
9
Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s
Two elements, illegible to each other, have until now made up Wordsworth's idea of "mute insensate things." They seem to accuse him — like the cliff in the boat- stealing episode of The Prelude, or the stones glaring after the murderer on ...
David Bromwich, 2000
10
The Scenic Imagination: Originary Thinking from Hobbes to ...
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. XXXVII: 186. The most sublime labor of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and ...
Eric Lawrence Gans

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSENSATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term insensate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Lowry: The grotesque business of Planned Parenthood | The Salt …
If watching the video doesn't turn your stomach, you are either morally insensate, or angling to be designated Planned Parenthood's Person of ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Right-wing racist whack-a-mole: Confederate flag comes down …
While ignorant or insensate bitter-enders will continue to screech, there's no going back: This thing is toxic even to Republican backbenchers. «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Legislative overreach and prosecutorial terrorism?
... needless quarrel with the executive, and even a sitting Supreme Court Justice, with remarkable insensate charges of treason and sedition. «The Manila Times, Jul 15»
4
How the brain perceives time
Without a sharp sense of time, people would be reduced to insensate messes, unable to move, talk, remember or learn. “We don't think about it, ... «Science News, Jul 15»
5
The Grotesque Business of Planned Parenthood - Rich Lowry …
If watching the video doesn't turn your stomach, you are either morally insensate or angling to be designated Planned Parenthood's Person of ... «Politico, Jul 15»
6
The latest, glorious selfie trend: sunburn art - CNET
On Wednesday, however, one rendered me temporarily insensate. It announced a trend of which I hadn't been aware. I need to be aware of ... «CNET, Jul 15»
7
Destroy All Monsters: Sadness Scares The Shit Out Of Me - Twitch
They'll start as normal headaches and, when the conditions are right, will worsen and worsen till I'm hiding insensate under the duvet for a day, ... «TwitchFilm, Jul 15»
8
Encyclical's groundbreaking critique of technology
'The technological mind,' he says, 'sees nature as an insensate order, as a cold body of facts, as a mere “given”, as an object of utility, as raw ... «Eureka Street, Jul 15»
9
Why Beijing Is So Desperate to Halt Stocks' Slide
If that isn't a central-bank put and a form of insensate quantitative easing, we don't know what is. But that's not all. Initial public offerings have ... «Barron's, Jul 15»
10
5 Weird Search Terms You Used, You Smellfungus
Parents are oblivious but not insensate. Trying to smuggle an entire team of two-story “bots is madness, nothing more than madness. «CBS Local, Jul 15»

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