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insensate
English
Etymology
From Latin ?ns?ns?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?n.s?t/
Adjective
insensate (comparative more insensate, superlative most insensate)
- Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
- 1816, Lord Byron, Diodati:
- 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.
- 1928, Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Moriturus":
- If I might be
- Insensate matter
- With sensate me
- Sitting within,
- Harking and prying,
- I might begin
- To dicker with dying.
- 1816, Lord Byron, Diodati:
- Senseless; foolish; irrational.
- 1818, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy, ch. 13:
- [T]he sot, the gambler, the bully, the jockey, the insensate fool, were a thousand times preferable to Rashleigh.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, ch. 13:
- Stupidly dozing, or communing with her incapable self about nothing, she sat for a little while with her hands at her ears. . . . Finally, she laid her insensate grasp upon the bottle that had swift and certain death in it, and, before his eyes, pulled out the cork with her teeth.
- 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, ch. 6:
- [T]he romping girl teased her . . . and was always trying to pick insensate quarrels with her about some "fellow" or other.
- 1918, Louis Joseph Vance, The False Faces, ch. 12:
- But in his insensate passion for revenge upon one who had all but murdered him, he had forgotten all else but the moment's specious opportunity.
- 1818, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy, ch. 13:
- Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
- 1847, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,ch. 36:
- I was cold-hearted, hard, insensate.
- 1904, Frank Norris, A Man's Woman, ch. 6:
- That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.
- 1917, Frank L. Packard, The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, ch. 8:
- . . . the most cold-blooded, callous murders and robberies, the work, on the face of it, of a well-organized band of thugs, brutal, insensate, little better than fiends.
- 1847, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,ch. 36:
- (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli.
- 1958 June, Edward B. Schlesinger, "Trigeminal Neuralgia," American Journal of Nursing, vol. 58, no. 6, p. 854:
- If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.
- 2004 Aug. 1, Jeff G. van Baal, "Surgical Treatment of the Infected Diabetic Foot," Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 39, p. S126:
- 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.
- 2005 Feb. 5, "Minerva," BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 330, no. 7486, p. 316:
- The innocuous trauma of high pressure jets and bubble massage to the insensate breast and back areas had caused the bruising seen in the picture.
- 1958 June, Edward B. Schlesinger, "Trigeminal Neuralgia," American Journal of Nursing, vol. 58, no. 6, p. 854:
Antonyms
- (having no sensation or consciousness): sentient
Translations
Noun
insensate (plural insensates)
- One who is insensate.
- 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, ch. 22:
- 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.
- 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, ch. 22:
Verb
insensate (third-person singular simple present insensates, present participle insensating, simple past and past participle insensated)
- (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.
- 1915, James Oliver Curwood, God's Country And the Woman, ch. 24 (Google preview):
- And this thought, blinding them to all else, insensating them to all emotions but that of vengeance, was thought of Josephine.
- 2002, Shony A. Braun, My Heart Is a Violin, ?ISBN, p. 60 (Google preview):
- The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated.
- 1915, James Oliver Curwood, God's Country And the Woman, ch. 24 (Google preview):
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “insensate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- antisense
Italian
Adjective
insensate f pl
- feminine plural of insensato
Noun
insensate f pl
- plural of insensata
Anagrams
- annessite
Latin
Adjective
?ns?ns?te
- vocative masculine singular of ?ns?ns?tus
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dead
English
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English d?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?d, IPA(key): /d?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- (West Country) IPA(key): /di?d/
Adjective
dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)
- (usually not comparable) No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- Have respect for the dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of life.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
- Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
- Without emotion.
- Stationary; static.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- Unproductive.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
- 2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful":
- In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
- 1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
- (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- (not comparable) Full and complete.
- (not comparable) Exact.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
- (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
- He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
- 1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:
- But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
Usage notes
- In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:
- 1611, King James Bible
- I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dead
Antonyms
- alive
- living
Translations
Adverb
dead (not comparable)
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
- Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- (informal) As if dead.
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Translations
Noun
dead (uncountable)
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- (collective, with the) Those persons who are dead.
Translations
Noun
dead (plural deads)
- (Britain) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Verb
dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)
- (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.
Related terms
- deaden
- deadliness
- deadly
- deadness
- death
- undead
Derived terms
References
- dead at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dade, Edda, adde, dade
French
Etymology
From English dead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?d/
Verb
dead
- (slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")
Usage notes
The verb is left unconjugated: il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *daud.
Cognate with Old Frisian d?d (West Frisian dead), Old Saxon d?d, Dutch dood, Old High German t?t (German tot), Old Norse dauðr (Swedish död), Gothic ???????????????????? (dauþs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæ???d/
Adjective
d?ad
- dead
Declension
Derived terms
- d?adl??
- healfd?ad
Related terms
- d?aþ
Descendants
- Middle English: ded, deed
- Scots: dede, deed, deid
- English: dead
- Yola: deed
See also
- steorfan
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English dead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de?ad]
Noun
dead (nominative plural deads)
- death, state being dead, state of death
Declension
Derived terms
- ädeadöl
- bludamodeadön
- dadeadön
- deadam
- deadamadel
- deadan
- deadanöp
- deadik
- deadio
- deadöf
- deadöfan
- deadöfik
- deadöl
- deadölan
- deadön
- deid
- deidöl
- deidön
- drakideidan
- drakihideidan
- drakijideidan
- edeadöl
- edeadön
- hideadan
- hideadöfan
- hideadölan
- jideadan
- jideadöfan
- jideadölan
- pedeidöl
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