Antonyms for numb
nʌmnumb

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1. numbverb

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible

   Synonyms:
   benumb

2. numbadjective

   Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.

   The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible

   Synonyms:
   benumb

3. numbadjective

   Antonyms:
   sensible, sensitive

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1. • Desensitize

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1. asleep(p), benumbed, numbadjective

   lacking sensation

   "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"

   Antonyms:
   fearless, sensible, sensitive, unafraid(p)

2. dead(p), numb(p)adjective

   (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

   "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

   Antonyms:
   fearless, unafraid(p), sensitive, sensible

3. numbverb

   so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified

   "too numb with fear to move"

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible, fearless, unafraid(p)

   Synonyms:
   numb(p), asleep(p), benumbed, dead(p)

4. numb, benumb, blunt, dullverb

   make numb or insensitive

   "The shock numbed her senses"

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, fearless, unafraid(p), sensible

   Synonyms:
   benumb, tone down, mute, dull, deaden, blunt, pall, damp, muffle, dampen

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1. numbadjective

   Synonyms:
   deadened, unfeeling, insensible, benumbed

2. numbverb

   Synonyms:
   benumb, deaden

How to use numb in a sentence?

1. Takuya Takahashi:

   The Japanese market has become numb to its own economy as there were scarier events in the past week in the global market, today is all about a technical rebound.

2. Khloe Kardashian:

   I don’t know if it’s Botox or filler. I did one of them and my whole face went numb and I could not make [an expression]. I had to dissolve everything, i looked crazy and I still think the effects are like, in there.

3. John Oliver:

   Here's the thing about that, it is not only in the Panhandle where you can get away with that statement, you can now get away with this all over the country and, as he just made painfully clear, in any room the actual president is in, which is absolutely appalling. And that is something we can not afford to get numb to. Because if that ever even a moment feels like it's become normal, we are completely f *** ed.

4. Tyre Sampson:

   When I found out it was my child, it took the breath out of me, it took some life out of me as well. It just made me numb and helpless because I wasn't there to protect my son.

5. Chief Seattle:

   The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

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