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Incensed vs Insensed - What's the difference?

incensed | insensed |

As verbs the difference between incensed and insensed

is that incensed is past tense of incense while insensed is past tense of insense.

As an adjective incensed

is enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.

incensed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enraged]]; [[infuriate, infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (incense)

    • insensed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (insense)

    • insense

    English

    Verb

    (insens)
  • (UK, dialect) To make to understand; to instruct.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)