| 单词 | insensible |
| 释义 | insensible (once / 557 pages) adj The adjective insensible is used to describe someone who is unconscious. If you keep your bowling ball on the top shelf of the closet and it rolls out and conks you on the head, you will be probably rendered insensible. The adjective insensible describes a lack of emotional response or being indifferent. If your friend says that the roller coaster was so scary it nearly made him vomit and you shrug and say, "Eh, it was okay," he may think you are insensible to fear. A lack of physical sensation can also be described as insensible. If your nerve endings are not acute and you don't feel much pain, you are insensible to pain. This can be dangerous, though, because you might not notice if you get hurt skateboarding. WORD FAMILYinsensible: insensibility, insensibly+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/desensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/sense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s not that Herzog is insensible to the costs of delusion. The New Yorker(Sep 01, 2016) There were many times during uneven and insensible moments in season 2 where I thought "good thing I read the book". New York Times(Jul 09, 2016) They don’t lurch but become uptight and narrow-minded, stuck on their talking points, implacable in their dopey, damaging, dronelike opinions, insensible to compromise. Slate(Jun 13, 2016) 1adj barely able to be perceived an almost insensible change Syn indiscernible, undetectable imperceptible, unperceivable impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses 2adj incapable of physical sensation insensible to pain insensible earth Syn|Ant incognizant, unaware (often followed by `of') not aware unconsciousnot conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead anaesthetic, anestheticcharacterized by insensibility asleep, benumbed, numblacking sensation insensitivenot responsive to physical stimuli insensitivedeficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive sensible, sensitive able to feel or perceive aware, cognisant, cognizant(sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception consciousknowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts sensitiveresponsive to physical stimuli 3adj unresponsive to stimulation he lay insensible where he had fallen Syn senseless unconscious not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead 4adj unaware of or indifferent to insensible to the suffering around him Syn unaffected insensitive deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive |
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