[syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insensate \In*sen"sate\, a. [L. insensatus. See In- not, and
Sensate.]
Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
[1913 Webster]
The silence and the calm
Of mute, insensate things. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen.
--Buckle.
-- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insensate
adj 1: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation;
"insentient (or insensate) stone" [syn: insentient,
insensate] [ant: animate, sentient]
2: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-
blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold,
cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "insensate":
abiotic, anarchic, anesthetic, angry, asleep, azoic, benumbed,
bloodless, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brainless, callous,
chaotic, dead, deadened, dull, dumb, exanimate, fatuous, foolish,
frantic, frenzied, furious, hard, headless, hellish, ignorant,
ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised,
ill-gauged, ill-judged, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient,
impolitic, impossible, imprudent, inadvisable, inanimate,
inanimated, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inert, inexpedient,
infuriate, injudicious, insensible, insensitive, insentient,
irrational, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lifeless, mad,
mindless, misadvised, misguided, mute, myopic, nitwitted,
nonconscious, nonliving, not bright, numb, numbed, obdurate,
obtuse, of little brain, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac,
pea-brained, pin-brained, raging, ravening, raving, reasonless,
reckless, rip-roaring, rocky, senseless, shortsighted, silly,
slackminded, slackwitted, soulless, storming, stormy, tempestuous,
thick-skinned, thick-witted, thoughtless, troublous, tumultuous,
turbulent, unadvised, unanimated, unconscious, unconsidered,
undiscerning, unfeeling, unfelt, unforeseeing, ungifted,
unintellectual, unintelligent, unperceptive, unreasonable,
unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible,
unsound, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, uproarious,
wild, witless