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Unsensible
adj
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Adjective
- 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?..."
- 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."
- 3 Out of one's senses; unconscious.
Etymology
From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.
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