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
Hard and desensitized are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hard" instead an adjective "Desensitized".
Nearby Words: desensitised, desensitizing
Hard
Hard adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: a hard man, who never had a kind word for anyone
Desensitized and hard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Desensitized" instead an adjective "Hard".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- unsparing and desensitized
- unsparing and hard
- merciless and desensitized
- merciless and hard
- unfeeling and desensitized
- unfeeling and hard
- cold and desensitized
- cold and hard
- callous and desensitized
- callous and hard
- obdurate and desensitized
- obdurate and hard
- unsympathetic and desensitized
- unsympathetic and hard
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