- [not before noun] insensible (to something)
unable to feel something or react to it (对某事物)无感觉,无反应能力,麻木 insensible to pain/cold 感觉不到疼痛/冷
- [not before noun] insensible (of something)
not aware of a situation or of something that might happen synonym unaware opposite sensible未察觉;意识不到 unconscious as the result of injury, illness, etc. 失去知觉;昏迷 More Like This Words that look like opposites, but aren’tWords that look like opposites, but aren’t
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the senses ‘unable to be perceived’ and ‘incapable of physical sensation’): partly from Old French insensible (from Latin insensibilis, from in- ‘not’ + sensibilis, from sensus ‘sense’), partly from in- ‘not’ + sensible.