stone-hearted
Without any compassion
Stone-hearted describes someone utterly lacking in compassion or sympathy—hard, cold, unyielding to emotional appeals.
The image is of a heart made of stone rather than flesh: incapable of being moved.
Only the most stone-hearted could ignore their suffering.
The word is literary and somewhat old-fashioned, more common in its synonym stony-hearted.
Cruelly insensitive to others
- heartlessLacking pity or mercy
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
unsympathetic · cruel · unkind · inhuman · coldhearted · uncompassionate · insensitive · brutish
Refusing to give way
- unrelentingRefusing to let up
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- adamantStubbornly refusing to yield
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
stern · inflexible · unbending · relentless · unforgiving · remorseless · unsparing · severe
Not stirred physically/emotionally
- indifferentLacking interest or concern
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- impassiveWithout visible emotion
stoic · stolid · unresponsive · affectless · blank · expressionless · dispassionate · aloof
callous
Cruelly insensitive to others
ruthless · unsympathetic · cruel · unkind · inhuman · coldhearted · uncompassionate · insensitive · brutish · savage
unyielding
Refusing to give way
- unrelentingRefusing to let up
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- adamantStubbornly refusing to yield
uncompromising · stern · inflexible · unbending · relentless · unforgiving · remorseless · unsparing · severe · harsh
unmoved
Not stirred physically/emotionally
- indifferentLacking interest or concern
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
impassive · stoic · stolid · unresponsive · affectless · blank · expressionless · dispassionate · aloof · uncaring
- cold-heartedcallous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, frigid
stone-heartedtender
Soft or sore
sensitive · feeling · sympathetic · emotional · warm
stone-heartedcompassionate
Showing concern for sufferers
kind-hearted · kindhearted · merciful · humane · benevolent