adj. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: INSENSATE 1, inanimate, insensible, insentient, senseless
Antonyms: feeling
2 lacking in normal human sympathy FF1C; an unfeeling response to a plea for help FF1E;
Synonyms: callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, compassionless, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, ironhearted, marblehearted, obdurate, stony, stonyhearted, uncompassionate, unemotional, unsympathetic; compare PITILESS
Related Words: brutal, cruel, indurated, merciless, roughhearted, ruthless, tough; exacting, severe; unamiable, uncordial, unkind; cantankerous, churlish, crotchety, curmudgeonly, surly
Idioms: hard of heart
Contrasted Words: considerate, gentle, thoughtful; kind, merciful; compassionate, sympathetic, warmhearted
Antonyms: feeling
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Synonyms: NUMB 1, anesthetized, asleep, benumbed, dead, deadened, insensible, insensitive, numbed, senseless