unfeeling
Cold and indifferent
Unfeeling describes someone who shows no sympathy or emotional response to others' suffering: an unfeeling bureaucrat who denied the claim without a second thought.
It can also mean physically numb—lacking sensation: Her fingers grew unfeeling in the cold.
The word implies coldness or indifference where warmth would be expected.
Lacking pity or mercy
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- pitilessLacking any compassion
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
- callousCruelly insensitive to others
cold-blooded · brutal · savage · vicious · sadistic · hardhearted · stony-hearted · inhuman
Made less intense
- desensitizedMade unresponsive through overexposure
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- insensateLacking sensation or consciousness
- benumbedMade unfeeling, desensitized
torpid · dulled · frozen · paralyzed · leaden · wooden · insensible · unresponsive
Lacking interest or concern
- unconcernedFeeling no worry
- disinterestedFree from personal stakes
- nonchalantCalmly unconcerned
- blaséUnimpressed through overexposure
phlegmatic · listless · passive · incurious · uninterested · lukewarm · halfhearted · perfunctory
Extremely and intensely cold
aloof · distant · remote · standoffish · withdrawn · reserved · forbidding · unwelcoming
Without visible emotion
- unemotionalLacking outward feeling
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
- composedCalm and self-possessed
- equanimousMentally calm, undisturbed
self-controlled · imperturbable · unflappable · dispassionate · reserved · collected · serene · unflinching
heartless
Lacking pity or mercy
callous · cold-blooded · brutal · savage · vicious · sadistic · hardhearted · stony-hearted · inhuman · barbaric
deadened
Made less intense
- desensitizedMade unresponsive through overexposure
- anesthetizedMade numb for surgery
- insensateLacking sensation or consciousness
benumbed · torpid · dulled · frozen · paralyzed · leaden · wooden · insensible · unresponsive · novocaine
indifferent
Lacking interest or concern
- unconcernedFeeling no worry
- disinterestedFree from personal stakes
- nonchalantCalmly unconcerned
blasé · phlegmatic · listless · passive · incurious · uninterested · lukewarm · halfhearted · perfunctory · tepid
frigid
Extremely and intensely cold
chilly · aloof · distant · remote · standoffish · withdrawn · reserved · forbidding · unwelcoming · impersonal
impassive
Without visible emotion
- unemotionalLacking outward feeling
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
- composedCalm and self-possessed
equanimous · self-controlled · imperturbable · unflappable · dispassionate · reserved · collected · serene · unflinching · resolute
- cold-heartedcallous, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, cruel
- detachmentdetached, dispassion, disengaged, indifference, apathy
- emotional numbnessflat affect, emptiness, apathy, hollowness, deadness
- Coldfrigid, frozen, icy, freezing, chilly
- egotismarrogant, conceited, egocentric, egomaniac, egotist
- robotic traitsmechanical, automated, programmed, monotone, machinelike
unfeelingcompassionate
Showing concern for sufferers
warmhearted · tenderhearted · caring · empathetic · sympathetic