hollow-hearted
Lacking genuine feeling
Hollow-hearted describes someone who lacks genuine emotion, sincerity, or compassion—whose heart is figuratively empty where feeling should be.
The word suggests a person capable of appearing caring or sympathetic while actually being cold or indifferent inside.
His hollow-hearted apology fooled no one.
It carries stronger condemnation than simply insincere, implying a fundamental emptiness of character rather than mere dishonesty.
Without an occupant
- voidWithout legal effect
- soullessLacking spirit or feeling
- barrenUnable to produce
- desolateBleak and abandoned
devoid · blank · loveless · spiritless · emotionless · dead · numb · unfulfilled
Feigning ignorance or innocence
- two-facedInsincere and deceptive
- duplicitousDeliberately deceptive in nature
- falseNot matching reality
- phonyFraudulent person or thing
hypocritical · feigned · pretended · superficial · sham · counterfeit · artificial · affected
Lacking pity or mercy
- cruelWillfully causing suffering
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
cold-blooded · uncompassionate · unfeeling · brutal · unmerciful · remorseless · inhuman · savage
Lacking interest or concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- aloofEmotionally withdrawn, uninviting
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
unconcerned · unresponsive · distant · remote · withdrawn · impassive · stoic · uncaring
vacant
Without an occupant
desolate · devoid · blank · loveless · spiritless · emotionless · dead · numb · unfulfilled · meaningless
disingenuous
Feigning ignorance or innocence
- two-facedInsincere and deceptive
- duplicitousDeliberately deceptive in nature
- falseNot matching reality
phony · hypocritical · feigned · pretended · superficial · sham · counterfeit · artificial · affected · put-on
heartless
Lacking pity or mercy
ruthless · cold-blooded · uncompassionate · unfeeling · brutal · unmerciful · remorseless · inhuman · savage · barbarous
indifferent
Lacking interest or concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- aloofEmotionally withdrawn, uninviting
- dispassionateFree from emotional involvement
unmoved · unconcerned · unresponsive · distant · remote · withdrawn · impassive · stoic · uncaring · cold
hollow-heartedsincere
Genuinely felt, not feigned
genuine · wholehearted · true-hearted · heartfelt · earnest
hollow-heartedloving
Feeling deep affection
kindhearted · compassionate · softhearted · caring · affectionate
heart, hollow, hearted, hollowed, hollowness, hollowing, hollowly, hollower, hollowest