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Unsensible vs Senseless - What's the difference?

unsensible | senseless |

As adjectives the difference between unsensible and senseless

is that unsensible is not sensible; silly, foolish while senseless is bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible.

unsensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not sensible; silly, foolish.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Sheila Kaye-Smith, title=Joanna Godden, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Hear, hear," and Joanna passed out of the conversation, for who was going to waste time either taking up or taking down a silly, tedious, foreign, unsensible notion like ploughing grass?... }}
  • That cannot be sensed; imperceptible.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Beebe, title=Edge of the Jungle, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There is no breeze, no slightest shift of air-particles; yet down the gorge comes this cloud,--a cloud unsensible except to nostrils,--eddying as if swirling around the edges of leaves, riding on the air as gently as the low, distant crooning of great, sleepy jungle doves. }}
  • Out of one's senses; unconscious.
  • senseless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bereft of feeling or consciousness; deprived of sensation; unconscious; insensible.
  • The blow to his head rendered him senseless , he didn't awaken until he was in the ambulance.
  • Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense; pointless; meaningless.
  • What a senseless waste of money.
  • Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement; unreasonable; unwise; stupid.
  • He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.

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