insensate

Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.

• Since thus divided — equal must it be If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea; It may be both — but one day end it must In the dark union of insensate dust.
• If I might be Insensate matter With sensate me Sitting within, Harking and prying, I might begin To dicker with dying.

Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.

• […]the sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh;—[…]
• […]the romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other.

Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.

• I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate.
• That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.

Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.

• If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.
• The presence of severe pain with a deep plantar foot infection in a diabetic patient is often the first alarming symptom, especially in a patient with a previously insensate foot.

One who is insensate.

• Here, at any rate, hostility did not assume that slow and sickening form. It was a cosmic agency, active, lashing, eager for conquest: determination; not an insensate standing in the way.

To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.rare

• And this thought, blinding them to all else, insensating them to all emotions but that of vengeance, was thought of Josephine.
• The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated.