unfeeling

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=feel=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

unfeeling, a. 

•  Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.  [1913 Webster]

  "To each his sufferings: all are men,
  Condemned alike to groan;
  The tender for another's pain,
  Th' unfeeling for his own."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unfeeling, adj.
1 unsympathetic, harsh, not caring about others' feelings.
2 lacking sensation or sensitivity.

Derivative

unfeelingly adv. unfeelingness n.

Etymology

OE unfelende (as UN-(1), FEELING)

THESAURUS

unfeeling

abiotic, affectless, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetized, arctic, asleep, autistic, azoic, benumbed, blunt, bowelless, brutal, callosity, callous, calloused, callousness, cantankerous, catatonic, chill, chilly, churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold of heart, cold-blooded, coldblooded, coldbloodedness, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, cool, crotchety, cruel, dead, deadened, deadness, dispassionate, dog-eat-dog, drugged, dull, dullness, dumb, electronarcosis, emotionally dead, emotionless, exacting, exanimate, flinthearted, flinty, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, harsh, heart of stone, heartless, heartlessness, icy, immovable, impassibility, impassible, impassive, imperception, imperceptive, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, impercipient, inanimate, inanimated, inclement, inconsiderateness, indurated, inert, inexcitable, inexorable, insensate, insensibility, insensible, insensibleness, insensitive, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insentient, insusceptible, ironhearted, lifeless, marblehearted, merciless, mute, narcosis, narcotization, nonconscious, nonemotional, nonliving, numb, numbed, numbness, obduracy, obdurate, objective, obtuse, obtuseness, out of touch, passionless, pins and needles, pitiless, pitilessness, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, self-absorbed, senseless, severe, soulless, spiritless, stony, stonyhearted, surly, thick skin, thick-skinned, thick-witted, tough, unaffectionate, unamiable, unanimated, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unconscious, uncordial, unemotional, unfeelingness, unfelt, unforgiving, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unkind, unloving, unmerciful, unmercifulness, unnatural, unnaturalness, unpassionate, unperceptive, unperceptiveness, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untouchable, unyielding, without mercy

ROGET THESAURUS

unfeeling

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.