cold heart
Incapacity for warmth
A cold heart lacks warmth, empathy, or emotional responsiveness toward others.
Someone with a cold heart seems indifferent to suffering or unmoved by appeals to compassion: She turned away the beggars with a cold heart.
The phrase often appears as the adjective cold-hearted: It was cold-hearted of him to fire her on Christmas Eve.
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
- cruelWillfully causing suffering
- unfeelingWithout compassion or emotion
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- stoneSolid earth fragment
distant · callous · bitter · numb · merciless · detached · indifferent · no love lost · ruthless · frigid · emotionless · dead inside · aloof · pitiless · winter · frosty · steel · hollow
- body idiomsheartstrings, gut feeling, gut instinct, backbone, hard head
- Heart Termsheartache, heartbeat, heartbreak
- coldnesschill, freeze, freezing, coolness, frigidity
- crueltycruelty, brutality, inhumanity, viciousness, ruthlessness
- malicemalice, ill will, spite, malevolence, malignity
- numbnessnumbness, insensibility, tingling, pins and needles, deadness
cold heartwarm heart
Emotional generosity, caring nature
tender heart · kind heart · soft heart · tenderness · warmth
cold heartwarm heart
Emotional generosity, caring nature
open heart · affectionate nature · emotional availability · attached
cold hearttenderness
Gentle, caring quality
gentleness · kindness · softness · nurturing spirit · benevolence