Compassionless
Compassionless adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: shocked by the mother's compassionless treatment of her autistic child
Desensitized and compassionless are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Desensitized" instead an adjective "Compassionless".
Desensitized
Desensitized adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: having lived through the horrors of war, the soldiers had seemingly become desensitized to virtually all human suffering
Compassionless and desensitized are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compassionless" instead an adjective "Desensitized".
Nearby Words: desensitised, desensitizing
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and compassionless
- hard and desensitized
- merciless and compassionless
- merciless and desensitized
- unfeeling and compassionless
- unfeeling and desensitized
- cold and compassionless
- cold and desensitized
- callous and compassionless
- callous and desensitized
- cold-blooded and compassionless
- cold-blooded and desensitized
- obdurate and compassionless
- obdurate and desensitized
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Desensitized and Compassionless. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/compassionless/desensitized
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