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Insensitive

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Callous 84% connected

Hardened; indurated.

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Callous 84% connected

Hardened; indurated.

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Dead 84% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Dead 84% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Deadened 84% connected

of Deaden

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Deadened 84% connected

of Deaden

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Dull 84% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Dull 84% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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Indurate 84% connected

Hardened; not soft; indurated.

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Indurate 84% connected

Hardened; not soft; indurated.

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Insensible 84% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insensible 84% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Numb 84% connected

Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

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Numb 84% connected

Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

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Pachydermatous 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.

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Pachydermatous 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.

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Soulless 84% connected

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

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Soulless 84% connected

Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

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Thick-skinned 84% connected

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.

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Thick-skinned 84% connected

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.

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Unaffected 84% connected

Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.

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Unaffected 84% connected

Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.

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Hard 66% connected

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Hard 66% connected

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Insensible 66% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insensible 66% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insusceptible 66% connected

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart…

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Insusceptible 66% connected

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart…

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Tough 66% connected

Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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Tough 66% connected

Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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Sensitivity 66% connected

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

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Sensitivity 66% connected

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

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Sensitive 94% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Sensitive 94% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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