English → Latin
“unfeeling” in Latin
dūrushard; rough; harsh; hardy; vigorousferuswild, savage, fierce, cruel; uncivilized, uncultivated; untamed, roughferreusiron, made of iron; like or pertaining to iron; hard, cruelinhūmānusinhuman; savage, barbarous; uncivil, unmannerly, churlish, discourteousabiciōto throw or hurl down or away, cast or push away or aside; to give up, abandon; expose; discard; to humble, degrade, red
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
unfeeling
durus: ferus: ferreus: inhumanus (figuratively, hard, unsympathizing, inhuman). To be unfeeling, durum, ferreum, inhumanum esse; inhumano esse ingenio: very unfeeling, omnem humanitatem exuisse or abjecisse: obduruisse et omnem humanitatem exuisse: omnem humanitatis sensum amisisse. I am not so unfeeling as not, etc. non sum ille ferreus, qui, etc.: to render unfeeling, *ferreum, inhumanum reddere: to render very unfeeling, obducere callum alicujus animo; omnem humanitatem alicui extorquere (the latter, to deprive, as it were, of all human feeling by violence): to grow or become unfeeling, abjicere humanitatem suam.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for unfeeling?
- The usual Latin words for “unfeeling” are dūrus, ferus, ferreus; also inhūmānus, abiciō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.