unsensible

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adjective

Not sensible; silly, foolish.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveunsensible (comparative more unsensible, superlative most unsensible)

comparative more unsensible · superlative most unsensible

  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.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishunsensible
  2. Englishunsensible

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

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Chicago

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