1.
a. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
b. Unconscious.
2. Lacking sensibility; unfeeling.
3. a. Lacking sense or the power to reason.
b. Foolish; witless.
“and we are here as on a darkling plain
fantastic with mythic trophies:
a green thought in a green shade,
a Chippendale in a dominoes etude,
mute, insensate things.”
—Paul Hoover, “American Gestures”
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