| Main Entry: | insentient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inanimate |
Synonyms: |
azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
| Notes: | insensate means without sensitivity or humane feeling; insentient means incapable of either |
| Main Entry: | callous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, insensitive |
Synonyms: |
apathetic, blind to, careless, case-hardened, cold, cold-blooded, deaf to, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, impassive, impenitent, indifferent, indurated, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, inured, obdurate, soulless, spiritless, stiff, stony, stubborn, thick-skinned, torpid, tough, toughened, unaffected, unbending, uncaring, uncompassionate, unconcerned, unfeeling, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic |
| Notes: | callus is a hard patch of skin; callous is an adjective meaning 'indifferent to suffering' or 'hardened' |
Antonyms: |
compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sensitive, sympathetic, tender |
| Main Entry: | inanimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not alive, not organic |
Synonyms: |
azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, insentient, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
Antonyms: |
animate, living |
| Main Entry: | numb |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadened, insensitive |
Synonyms: |
aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, benumbed, callous, casual, comatose, dazed, dead, detached, disinterested, frozen, immobilized, incurious, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insentient, lethargic, listless, numbed, paralyzed, phlegmatic, remote, senseless, stupefied, stuporous, torpid, unconcerned, unconscious, uncurious, unfeeling, uninterested |
Antonyms: |
lively, responsive, sensitive |