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  • 111callous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. horny, tough; unfeeling, insensitive, hardened. See hardness, insensibility. Ant., compassionate. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unfeeling, insensitive, inured, hardened, unsusceptible, uncaring,… …

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  • 112dull — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsharp, blunt; deadened, numb; stupid; tedious, uninteresting, boring; spiritless, vapid, vacuous; dead, lifeless; sluggish, listless, lethargic; lackluster, dim, cloudy, obscure, stale, jaded. v.… …

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  • 113heartless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cruel, cold, unfeeling, uncaring, unsympathetic, callous; unkind, inconsiderate, insensitive. See insensibility. Ant., kind, warm. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cruel, unkind, unthinking, insensitive; …

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  • 114tactless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. thoughtless, insensitive, inconsiderate; callous, unfeeling, blunt, direct. See indifference. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. undiplomatic, unperceptive, unthoughtful, insensitive, inconsiderate,… …

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  • 115insensible — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unconscious] Syn. swooning, torpid, numb, unaware; see unaware , unconscious 1 . 2. [Indifferent] Syn. impassive, apathetic, unappreciative, impervious; see callous , indifferent 1 , unmoved 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) …

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  • 116in|sen´si|tive|ness — in|sen|si|tive «ihn SEHN suh tihv», adjective. 1. not sensitive; without feeling: »an insensitive area of the skin, insensitive to light. 2. slow to feel or notice: »insensitive to the power of music. –in|sen´si|tive|ly, adverb.… …

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  • 117in|sen´si|tive|ly — in|sen|si|tive «ihn SEHN suh tihv», adjective. 1. not sensitive; without feeling: »an insensitive area of the skin, insensitive to light. 2. slow to feel or notice: »insensitive to the power of music. –in|sen´si|tive|ly, adverb.… …

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  • 118in|sen|si|tive — «ihn SEHN suh tihv», adjective. 1. not sensitive; without feeling: »an insensitive area of the skin, insensitive to light. 2. slow to feel or notice: »insensitive to the power of music. –in|sen´si|tive|ly, adverb. –in|sen´si|tive|ness, noun …

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  • 119desensitize — transitive verb Date: 1898 1. to make (a sensitized or hypersensitive individual) insensitive or nonreactive to a sensitizing agent 2. to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear,… …

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  • 120ASCII — American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), pronEng|ˈæski [ [http://www.m w.com/cgi bin/audio.pl?ascii001.wav=ASCII Audio pronunciation for ASCII] . Merriam Webster . Accessed 2008 04 14.] is a character encoding based on the… …

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