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cold-blooded
Synonyms and Antonyms of cold-blooded
- a cold-blooded criminal who never once showed an ounce of mercy to his victims
affectless, callous, case-hardened, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pachydermatous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony (also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic
boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncaring, unfriendly, unloving, unthinking
grim, hard-bitten, harsh, heavy-handed, ironfisted, ironhanded, jackbooted, knock-down, drag-out (or knock-down-and-drag-out), oppressive, rough, rough-and-tumble, severe, sledgehammer, stern, tough, ungentle
abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, virulent
barbarous, bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, evil-minded, savage, vicious
- the cold-blooded selfishness shown by the miser when confronted by people in need
- a cold-blooded assessment of the situation showed that the company needed either to lay off workers or go bankrupt
cold, cool, dispassionate, unmoved
bland, blank, deadpan, dry, empty, expressionless, inexpressive, stone-faced, straight-faced, vacant, wooden
enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable
aloof, bloodless, detached, indifferent, insensible, unconcerned, unsentimental
impersonal, objective, unresponsive
- he may not be as fancy as the other horses they own, but that cold-blooded gelding is safe and gentle
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