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insensible
English
Etymology
From Old French insensible, from Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?n.s?.bl?/
- Hyphenation: in?sen?si?ble
Adjective
insensible (comparative more insensible, superlative most insensible)
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ
- If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, […] it shall be quashed.
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 138
- In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection...
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Synonym: insensitive
Antonyms
- sensible
Derived terms
- insensibility
- insensibly
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French insensible, from Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.s??.sibl/
- Homophone: insensibles
Adjective
insensible (plural insensibles)
- insensible
- impervious
Further reading
- “insensible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /insen?sible/, [?n.s?n?si.??le]
Adjective
insensible (plural insensibles)
- insensible, insensitive, callous, cold, tactless
- Antonym: sensible
Related terms
- insensibilidad (possibly derived)
Further reading
- “insensible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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idle
English
Etymology
From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English ?del, from Proto-Germanic *?dalaz. Cognate with Dutch ijdel (“vain, meaningless”), German Low German iedel (“vain, idle”), German eitel (“vain, conceited”), and possibly Old Norse illr ("bad"; > English ill).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ??d(?)l, IPA(key): /?a?d(?)l/
- Rhymes: -a?d?l
- Homophones: idol, idyll, idyl (US pronunciation)
Adjective
idle (comparative more idle, superlative most idle)
- (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (of no importance): pointless
- See also Thesaurus:lazy
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
idle (third-person singular simple present idles, present participle idling, simple past and past participle idled)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- to idle in an IRC channel
- 1939, Joan Evans, Chateaubriand (page 32)
- He had already heard of the young man's projected journey — evidently the Comte de Combourg had written many letters while his son idled at St. Malo […]
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
Derived terms
- idler
Related terms
- (sense 3) idling speed
Translations
Noun
idle (plural idles)
- The state of idling, of being idle.
- (gaming) An idle animation.
- (gaming) An idle game.
- Synonyms: idle game, incremental game
References
- idle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- idle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- idle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Diel, deli, diel, eild, lied
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