unfeeling

unfeeling
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. hard[-hearted], cold [-blooded], cruel; heartless, inhuman, callous, dispassionate; merciless, pitiless, unmerciful, relentless, adamant. See insensibility, malevolence.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Incapable of sensation]
Syn. insensate, insensible, unconscious, anesthetized; see numb 1 .
2. [Incapable of sympathy]
Syn. hardhearted, callous, heartless, inhuman, pitiless; see also cruel 2 , ruthless 1 , 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. callous cold, apathetic, indifferent, unsympathetic, heartless, unemotional, stony, *having veins filled with ice water, cold-blooded, pitiless, merciless, hard.
2. insensate insensient, numb, paralyzed, unconscious, comatose, dead.
ANT.: 1. feeling, sympathetic, warmhearted, emotional. 2. sentient
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Lacking physical feeling or sensitivity: asleep, dead, insensible, insensitive, numb. See AWARENESS. 2. Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted. See ATTITUDE.

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