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deadened
adjective as in benumbed
Weak matches
adjective as in dead
adjective as in deadly
adjective as in faint
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in insensitive
adjective as in muffled
adjective as in unfeeling
Weak matches
- anesthetized
- apathetic
- asleep
- benumbed
- brutal
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- cold-hearted
- crotchety
- cruel
- exacting
- feelingless
- hard
- hardened
- heartless
- icy
- inanimate
- inhuman
- insensate
- insensible
- insensitive
- iron-hearted
- merciless
- obdurate
- pitiless
- ruthless
- sensationless
- senseless
- severe
- stony
- surly
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unamiable
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- uncordial
- unemotional
- unkind
- unsympathetic
adjective as in unimpressionable
adjective as in unsusceptible
Example Sentences
Food was strictly rationed and curfews deadened the late nights.
The talk between them rarely touched reality, as though a barrier deadened their very voices.
The grass had deadened the sound of approaching footsteps and the boy rose hastily.
Fortunately, her way was deadened, and as I came up I seized the sheet, and with the general's assistance scrambled on board.
All was as still as the grave; the roar of the busy city-life deadened by the heavy atmosphere and cushioned earth.
His impulse is to be chivalrous, for chivalry is not regulated by income nor deadened by pennilessness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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