insentient

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having no consciousness or feeling; inanimate.
    — [O]ver her flayed, exposed soul of a young girl who had gone open and warm to give herself to the children, there set a hard, insentient thing, that worked mechanically according to a system imposed.
  2. Insensitive, indifferent. rare
    — His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.

词形变化

more insentient comparative most insentient superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English sentient
English insentient
From in- + sentient.
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