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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard |
| Synonyms: | callous, cold, cruel, feral, heartless, insensitive, subhuman |
| Main Entry: | inanimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not alive, not organic |
| Synonyms: | azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, insentient, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
| Antonyms: | animate, living |
| Main Entry: | pitiless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without mercy or care |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold*, coldblooded, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, frigid, hardhearted, harsh, hatchetjob, heartless, implacable, indifferent, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensible, killer instinct, mean, merciless, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, satanic, savage, soulless, stony |
| Antonyms: | charitable, kind, merciful, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insentient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inanimate |
| Synonyms: | azoic, cold, dead, defunct, dull, exanimate, extinct, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, insensate, lifeless, mineral, motionless, nonanimal, nonvegetable, quiescent, soulless, spiritless |
| Notes: | insensate means without sensitivity or humane feeling; insentient means incapable of either |
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