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Synonyms & Antonyms of unfeeling
1
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
- gave the homeless people on the street only an unfeeling glance
Synonyms for unfeeling
- affectless,
- callous,
- case-hardened,
- cold-blooded,
- 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,
- unmerciful,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic
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- 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
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2
lacking in sensation or feeling
- her heart was as cold and hard as the unfeeling marble statue in her garden
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3
lacking animate awareness or sensation
- she spoke politely even to the unfeeling virtual assistant on her phone
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“Unfeeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfeeling. Accessed 28 Jul. 2021.
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