insensate
Lacking all sensation
Insensate means lacking sensation or consciousness, or utterly unfeeling.
An insensate body cannot respond to stimuli.
The word extends to behavior that seems devoid of reason or humanity: insensate violence, insensate cruelty.
It suggests brutishness beyond mere callousness—actions so extreme they seem to lack any human awareness behind them.
Made less intense
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- desensitizedMade unresponsive through overexposure
- benumbedMade unfeeling, desensitized
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
paralyzed · nerveless · sensationless · dulled · stupefied · frozen · stiff · leaden
Without feeling or concern
- stoicUncomplaining endurer of hardship
- impassiveWithout visible emotion
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
unmoved · unemotional · indifferent · phlegmatic · aloof · nonchalant · blasé · unconcerned
Deeply unconscious, unrousable
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- inertInactive, physically or chemically
- lifelessDevoid of animation
- stuporousIn a near-unconscious state
vegetative · catatonic · dormant · immobile · motionless · suspended · brain-dead · asleep
Cruelly insensitive to others
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- cold-bloodedUnfeeling or externally heated
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- mercilessShowing no clemency
hard-hearted · uncompassionate · unsympathetic · cruel · inhuman · stony · impervious · indurate
deadened
Made less intense
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- desensitizedMade unresponsive through overexposure
- benumbedMade unfeeling, desensitized
unresponsive · paralyzed · nerveless · sensationless · dulled · stupefied · frozen · stiff · leaden · torpid
apathetic
Without feeling or concern
dispassionate · unmoved · unemotional · indifferent · phlegmatic · aloof · nonchalant · blasé · unconcerned · uncaring
comatose
Deeply unconscious, unrousable
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- inertInactive, physically or chemically
- lifelessDevoid of animation
stuporous · vegetative · catatonic · dormant · immobile · motionless · suspended · brain-dead · asleep · oblivious
callous
Cruelly insensitive to others
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- cold-bloodedUnfeeling or externally heated
- pitilessLacking any compassion
merciless · hard-hearted · uncompassionate · unsympathetic · cruel · inhuman · stony · impervious · indurate · ruthless
lifeless
Devoid of animation
unanimated · inorganic · mineral · stone · matter · spiritless · soulless · thinglike · unalive
- cold-heartedcallous, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cruel
insensatecompassionate
Showing concern for sufferers
tenderhearted · kindhearted · humane · sympathetic · warmhearted
sense, sensitive, sensation, sensitivity, insensitive, sentient, sensual, sensory, sensibility