unsensible
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unsensible, equivalent to un- + sensible.
Adjective
[edit]unsensible (comparative more unsensible, superlative most unsensible)
- Not sensible; silly, foolish.
- 1921, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Joanna Godden[1]:
- "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?...
- That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
- 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle[2]:
- 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.
- Out of one's senses; unconscious.