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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, slow-moving |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, comatose, dopey, down, dragging, draggy, drippy, heavy, hebetudinous, inactive, indolent, inert, laid-back*, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, mooney, off, phlegmatic, pokey, slack, sleepyheaded, slothful, slow, sluggard, slumberous, stagnant, stiff, sullen, torpid, unresponsive |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, energetic, fast, lively, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | do-nothing, dormant, dull, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, lethargic, listless, motionless, passive, quiet, sedentary, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggish, unoccupied, unresponsive |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Main Entry: | unaffected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unchanged, unmoved |
| Synonyms: | aloof, callous, calm, casual, cold fish, cool, easy-going, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, impassive, impervious, laid-back*, not influenced, proof, steady, thick-skinned, unaltered, unconcerned, unexcited, unimpressed, uninfluenced, unresponsive, unruffled, unstirred, untouched |
| Antonyms: | affected, changed, moved, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncommunicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, silent |
| Synonyms: | aloof, buttoned up, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, curt, distant, dried up, evasive, guarded, hush-hush, offish, on the QT, quiet, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, short, standoffish, taciturn, tight-lipped, unapproachable, unresponsive, unsociable |
| Antonyms: | communicative, confident, extroverted, responsive |
| Main Entry: | unemotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not responsive |
| Synonyms: | along for the ride, apathetic, blah*, callous, chill*, cold, coldhearted, cool, deadpan, dispassionate, emotionless, flat, frigid, glacial, going with the flow, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, impassive, indifferent, insensitive, laid-back*, listless, marble, obdurate, passionless, phlegmatic, quiet, reserved, reticent, rolling with the punches, thick-skinned, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable, unfeeling, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | caring, emotional, excitable, feeling, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uninterested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | oblivious to |
| Synonyms: | aloof, apathetic, blasé, bored, bored stiff, casual, could care less, detached, disinterested, distant, going through motions, hard-hearted, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, remote, thick-skinned, turned off, unconcerned, uncurious, uninvolved, unresponsive, weary, withdrawn |
| Notes: | if you are disinterested, you have no stake in the outcome of an event and you are impartial - but if you are uninterested, you simply don't care; disinterested is 'impartial, neutral' and uninterested is 'bored, lacking interest' uninterested means 'having no interest in, being indifferent to'; disinterested means 'having no personal interest or stake in; being unbiased toward' |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, enthusiastic, feeling, interested |
| Main Entry: | unsympathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without agreement in feeling |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antipathetic, apathetic, aversive, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cool, cruel, disinterested, frigid, halfhearted, hard, harsh, heartless, icy, indifferent, insensitive, lukewarm, mean, nasty, obdurate, repellent, repugnant, stony, tough, uncompassionate, unconcerned, uncongenial, unemotional, unfeeling, unkind, unmoved, unpitying, unpleasant, unresponsive |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | refractory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obstinate |
| Synonyms: | bullheaded, cantankerous, contrary, difficult, disobedient, headstrong, incorrigible, intractable, opinionated, perverse, rebellious, stubborn, ungovernable, unmanageable, unresponsive, unruly, unyielding, willful |
| Antonyms: | manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | benumbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | numb |
| Synonyms: | asleep, deadened, insensible, insensitive, unresponsive, wooden |
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