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Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly. [R.] N. Bacon.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity.

Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly. [R.] Blount.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. [R.] Clarendon. -- n.

Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] Milton.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.

Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]

Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]

Idiocy; fatuity; stupidity.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.

A stupid person. [Colloq.] C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.

Dull; stupid.