unsensible
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4ADJ.
foreign, silly, tedious
VERB + UNSENSIBLE
cloud
UNSENSIBLE + NOUN
nostrils, notion
PREP.
except
Definitions
adj
Not sensible; silly, foolish.
"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.
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.
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2"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?...
WiktionaryThere 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
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