heartless
Devoid of empathy
Heartless means lacking compassion or feeling—cruel, unfeeling, indifferent to others' suffering.
A heartless decision disregards human cost.
A heartless person shows no sympathy.
The word implies coldness rather than active malice: It was heartless to fire her on Christmas Eve.
Something heartless treats people as if they don't matter.
Showing no clemency
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- viciousCruelly aggressive in nature
sadistic · savage · malicious · malevolent · inhuman · barbaric · monstrous · fiendish
Without compassion or emotion
- uncaringLacking emotional concern
- insensitiveUnaware of others' emotions
- unsympatheticWithout pity or understanding
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
indifferent · uncompassionate · unempathetic · hardened · detached · emotionless · unmoved · dispassionate
merciless
Showing no clemency
vicious · sadistic · savage · malicious · malevolent · inhuman · barbaric · monstrous · fiendish · remorseless
unfeeling
Without compassion or emotion
- uncaringLacking emotional concern
- insensitiveUnaware of others' emotions
- unsympatheticWithout pity or understanding
apathetic · indifferent · uncompassionate · unempathetic · hardened · detached · emotionless · unmoved · dispassionate · aloof
hollow
Empty within
void · spiritless · lifeless · dead · barren · cold · mechanical · robotic · automaton · zombie
- cold-heartedcallous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, frigid
- meanmean, cruel, unkind, nasty, hurtful
- Coldfrigid, frozen, icy, freezing, chilly
- selfish traitsselfish, greedy, self-centered, self-absorbed, egotistical
- negative adjectivesawful, bad, cruel, dumb, evil
- unshakeableunflappable, unfazed, unbothered, resilient, stoic
heartlesscompassionate
Showing concern for sufferers
kindhearted · warmhearted · tenderhearted · softhearted · caring