Word Meanings - INSENSATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.
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- BESOTTINGLY
In a besotting manner. - OBTUSE
1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse - WITTS
Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight. - BESOTTED
Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton. - STOLIDNESS
See STOLIDITY - WITTED
Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy. - WITTY
1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, - WITTINESS
The quality of being witty. - WITTOLLY
Like a wittol; cuckoldly. Shak. - STUPIDITY
1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman. - STOLID
Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish. - DOLTISH
Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n. - OBTUSE-ANGLED; OBTUSE-ANGULAR
Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle. - STUPID
1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, - WITTINGLY
Knowingly; with knowledge; by design. - OBTUSENESS
State or quality of being obtuse. - PROSY
1. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose. 2. Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic. - WITTICASTER
A witling. Milton. - PROSYLOGISM
A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism. - WITTILY
In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden. - DISWITTED
Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton. - TWITTERING
1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the - SODDEN-WITTED
Heavy; dull. Shak. - LEPROSY
A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one - UNWITTING
Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv. - TWITTER
One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider. - HALF-WITTED
Weak in intellect; silly. - TWITTLE-TWATTLE
Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange. - FAT-WITTED
Dull; stupid. Shak. - SLOW-WITTED
Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.