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unsensible en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.

Meanings

1. Not sensible; silly, foolish.
   • "Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?... 1921, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Joanna Godden:
2. That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
   • There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves. 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:
3. Out of one's senses; unconscious.

Forms

Deriveds

unsensibly · unsensibility · unsensibleness

Relateds

nonsensible · nonsensical · unsensitive · insensible · insensitive