numbest

Most without sensation

Numbest is the superlative form of numb—the most numb.

A body part that has lost all sensation is numbest: After an hour in the snow, my toes were numbest where the boot leaked.

Emotionally, someone completely deadened to feeling might be described as numbest: She was numbest in the weeks right after the funeral.

physical

tingling

Slight stinging sensation

anesthetized · novocaine · deadened · insensate · paralyzed · immobile · sensationless · unfeeling · cold · stiff

emotional

desensitized

Made unresponsive through overexposure

unresponsive · apathetic · blank · hollow · empty · dissociated · withdrawn · hardened · calloused · traumatized

Opposites
physical sensation

numbesttingliest

Superlative of skin-prickling

hypersensitive · most painful · warmest

Phrases
Family

number, numbers, numbed, benumbed

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