INSENSIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insensibly mean? 

• INSENSIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb INSENSIBLY has 1 sense:

1. in a numb manner; without feeling

  Familiarity information: INSENSIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSENSIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a numb manner; without feeling

Synonyms:

insensibly; numbly

Context example:

I stared at him numbly

Pertainym:

insensible (incapable of physical sensation)

 Context examples 

You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It came to him insensibly that it was a very good world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then insensibly there came the strange change which I had noticed in the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We insensibly approached the old boat, and entered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, the girls insensibly relaxed their praiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into old ways.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Insensibly the lawyer melted.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was hot; and after walking some time over the gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three together, they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of a broad short avenue of limes, which stretching beyond the garden at an equal distance from the river, seemed the finish of the pleasure grounds.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)