Adjective

(en adjective)

Unable to be perceived by the senses.

* Sir Thomas Browne

Two small and almost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm.

* Dryden

They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.

Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.

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Unable to be understood; unintelligible.

Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.

* Sir M. Hale

If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, it shall be quashed.

Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.

* Dryden

Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.

* Sir H. Wotton

Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness.

* 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.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect . --

Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.

Matter, being impotent, sluggish , and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself . -- Woodward

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

Inflation has been rising despite sluggish economy.