| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Without emotion or interest: apathetic, detached, impassive, incurious, indifferent, lethargic, listless, phlegmatic, stolid, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive. See FEELINGS. 2. Lacking physical feeling or sensitivity: asleep, dead, insensitive, numb, unfeeling. See AWARENESS. 3. Lacking responsiveness or alertness: benumbed, dull, insensitive, numb, stuporous, torpid, unresponsive, wooden. See AWARENESS. 4. Incapable of being apprehended by the mind or the senses: impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, indistinguishable, intangible, invisible, unnoticeable, unobservable. See KNOWLEDGE. 5. Lacking passion and emotion: anesthetic, bloodless, dull, insensate, insensitive. See ATTITUDE, FEELINGS. 6. Lacking consciousness: cold, senseless, unconscious. Idioms: out cold, out like a light. See AWARENESS.
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