unsensible
English
Etymology
From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.
Adjective
unsensible (comparative more unsensible, superlative most unsensible)
- Not sensible; silly, foolish.
- That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
- 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:
- 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.
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- Out of one's senses; unconscious.
Derived terms
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