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hard-hearted
adjective as in aloof
adjective as in cold-blooded
adjective as in cold-hearted
adjective as in cruel
Strongest matches
adjective as in heartless
adjective as in obdurate
Weak matches
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hanging tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
adjective as in remorseless
Weak matches
- avaricious
- barbarous
- bloody
- callous
- cruel
- fierce
- forbidding
- greedy
- grim
- hard
- hard-bitten
- hardened
- harsh
- impenitent
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- inhumane
- insensitive
- intolerant
- merciless
- murderous
- obdurate
- pitiless
- relentless
- rigorous
- ruthless
- sanguinary
- savage
- shameless
- sour
- tough
- tyrannical
- uncompassionate
- uncontrite
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unregenerate
- unrelenting
- unremitting
- unrepenting
- unyielding
- vindictive
adjective as in ruthless
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adjective as in stonyhearted
adjective as in unaffected
adjective as in unconcerned
Strongest matches
adjective as in unemotional
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- along for the ride
- apathetic
- blah
- callous
- chill
- cold
- coldhearted
- cool
- flat
- frigid
- glacial
- going with the flow
- hard-boiled
- heartless
- indifferent
- insensitive
- listless
- marble
- obdurate
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- quiet
- reserved
- rolling with the punches
- thick-skinned
- uncompassionate
- undemonstrative
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unimpressionable
- unresponsive
- unsympathetic
adjective as in uninterested
Example Sentences
We were accused of being hard-hearted, hypocritical, and a long list of other things for not having done so.
Against such a background, the political satirist must be hard-nosed, hard-hearted and—it must be said—self-interested.
Your father is not a hard hearted man; when his passion is over he will be the first to want you back.
You seem to think, retorted the doctor, that every body is disposed to be hard-hearted to-day except yourself.
The hard-hearted executor of the law was brought within the influence of her enchantment.
He was a hard-hearted youth, and was frankly surprised that Haggard showed any feeling at all.
Mrs Pike was not very hard-hearted, but she knew that a little starvation would do none of them much harm.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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