insensible

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When you think about it for a bit, I don't think it's so insensible for each language to have its own package manager.

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Quick take

incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of insensible gathered in one view.

adjective

incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"

adjective

unaware of or indifferent to; "insensible to the suffering around him"

adjective

barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for insensible.

adjective

incapable of physical sensation; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth"

adjective

unaware of or indifferent to; "insensible to the suffering around him"

adjective

barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change"

adjective

unresponsive to stimulation; "he lay insensible where he had fallen"; "drugged and senseless"

Example sentences

When you think about it for a bit, I don't think it's so insensible for each language to have its own package manager.

This seems rather insensible and possibly bigoted to me.

... A good deal more worthy of preference by the clear-sighted teacher will be those students who are somewhat headstrong, con- temptuous of first place, insensible to the inducements of vanity, and who being endowed with an abundance of restless imagination spend their energy in the pursuit of literature, art, philosophy, and all the recreations of mind and body.