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单词 insensate
释义
insensate
adjective
formal
uk
/ɪnˈsen.seɪt/us
/ɪnˈsen.seɪt/
notawareof what you are doing or what ishappeningaround you:
失去判断力的，无理性的；没有知觉的
He wasvirtuallyinsensate afterdrinkinghalfabottleofwhisky.喝了半瓶威士忌之后，他几乎失去了知觉。
notfeelinganysympathyfor other people'ssuffering:
无同情心的，无情的
insensatecruelty/brutality残忍无情/粗暴无理
Synonym
unfeeling
having none of thecharacteristicsoflifethat ananimalorplanthas:
无生气的，无生命的
insensateobjectslikechairs像椅子这种无生命的物体
Synonym
inanimate
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unaware
  • be in the darkidiom
  • be on another planetidiom
  • benighted
  • blind spot
  • blindly
  • blindness
  • foggy
  • Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom
  • illiterate
  • in blissful ignoranceidiom
  • innumeracy
  • innumerate
  • lost
  • misunderstand
  • stump
  • unacquainted
  • unattuned
  • unawakened
  • unaware
  • unawareness
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(Definition ofinsensatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinsensate

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He liesinsensateon the couch after his binges; then he begins to pass out on the couch during his drinking sprees.
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The cave-wife, sensing something amiss, finds her mate alone, battered andinsensate.
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He is transformed from aninsensateprisoner who mindlessly cobbles shoes into a man of distinction.
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Venom appears to have the same physical reaction after injection, but leaves the user mindless andinsensate.
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The failure rendered himinsensate, meaning he was robbed of his senses save for his sense of touch on the tips of two fingers.
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In such cases, he would have his patients drink a solution of morphean powder whereupon they would immediately become intoxicated as though dead and completelyinsensate.
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Adjectives per se are not incompatible with the strong pronunciation variant, as can be seen ininsensateand intestate for instance.
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I do not wish to enter into comparisons, but these disturbances are as lamentable as they are absurd, and they areinsensate.
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Most certainly, direct rule by itself will not end the ruthless andinsensatekillings and the violence which have taken place on both sides.
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All that appears to have happened is one more episode in thisinsensateforging ahead of a national "this"and a national"that".
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Now we are shown no end to the piling up of theseinsensatearmaments.
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He has cost the country, with hisinsensatecampaign, a sum of very nearly £300,000,000.
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I do not at any rate hold him personally responsible for thisinsensatearrangement.
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I am sure that this is a much more hopeful line than theinsensatepiling up of expenditure on armaments.
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They are not civilised faces, but the faces of barbarous men inflamed with aninsensatepassion of hatred.
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