hebetate
21desensitize — Synonyms and related words: KO, anesthetize, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, dope, drug, dull, etherize, freeze, hebetate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, mull, narcotize,… …
22dull — Synonyms and related words: KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant, abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless, allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize, anesthetized, apathetic, appease …
23pointed — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Spartan, V shaped, Y shaped, abbreviated, abridged, acanthoid, acanthous, accented, accentuated, acicular, aciform, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, akimbo, allegorical, angular, aphoristic,… …
24stupefy — Synonyms and related words: KO, addle, amaze, anesthetize, appall, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, bedaze, bedazzle, bemuse, benumb, besot, bewilder, blunt, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, chloroform, coldcock, confound, daze, dazzle, deaden,… …
25dull — 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.… …
26insensibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of physical or emotional feeling Nouns 1. (physical numbness) insensibility, insensibleness; impassibility, impassibleness, impassivity; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness,… …
27stupefy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. deaden, dull, numb, narcotize; stun, astound, daze, dumbfound. See insensibility, surprise. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stun] Syn. dull, numb, benumb; see deaden 1 . 2. [To amaze] Syn. astound,… …
28dim — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. faint, dusky, shadowy; see dark 1 . See Synonym Study at dark . • take a dim view of, Syn. suspect, disapprove, be skeptical about; see doubt 2 , oppose 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. poorly lit faint, dusky,… …
29Insensibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insensibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insensibility insensibility insensibleness Sgm: N 1 moral insensibility moral insensibility Sgm: N 1 inertness inertness inertia Sgm: N 1 vis inertiae vis inertiae Sgm: N 1… …
30hebetude — 1620s, from L. hebetudo, noun of quality from hebes “blunt, dull,” of unknown origin. Related: Hebetate (v.); hebetation; hebetudinous …
