insensate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who is insensate.
    — Here, at any rate, hostility did not assume that slow and sickening form. It was a cosmic agency, active, lashing, eager for conquest: determination; not an insensate standing in the way.
动词 v.
  1. To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness. rare
    — And this thought, blinding them to all else, insensating them to all emotions but that of vengeance, was thought of Josephine.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
    — Since thus divided — equal must it be If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea; It may be both — but one day end it must In the dark union of insensate dust.
  2. Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.
    — […]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…]
  3. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
    — I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate.
  4. Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
    — If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.

词形变化

more insensate comparative most insensate superlative insensates plural insensates present,singular,third-person insensating participle,present insensated participle,past insensated past

词汇关系

衍生词
insensately insensateness

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin sensātus
Latin īnsēnsātuslbor.
English insensate
Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēnsātus.
词源 2
From the substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix).
词源 3
From Latin īnsēnsātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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