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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

insensato

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /in.senˈsa.to/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unsensible/ʌnˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Fue una decisión insensata conducir a esa velocidad."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Lacking good sense or judgment; foolish, unreasonable, or imprudent.

    "It would be unsensible to drive through a severe snowstorm without winter tires."
  2. 2

    Unaware of or indifferent to something; lacking sensory perception or consciousness.

    "She fell down the stairs and lay unsensible for several minutes."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix un- (meaning 'not') combined with sensible, which traces back to Old French sensible and ultimately to Latin sensibilis ('perceptible by the senses, sensitive'). By the late 16th century, the term shifted from denoting a lack of physical sensation to describing someone or something lacking good sense, wisdom, or practical judgment.

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