Desensitized and Mild

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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

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Mild is an antonym for desensitized.

Mild adjective - Marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low.

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Desensitized is an antonym for mild.

Nearby Words: mildness, mildly

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Mild and Desensitized. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/desensitized/mild

Desensitized & Mild. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/desensitized/mild>.

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