hard-hearted Copy link • hard-hearted: dūrus, ferreus, ĭnhūmānus esp. in combination: cf. Cic. Verr. 5, 46, init., quis tam fuit durus et ferreus, quis tam inhumanus? v. cruel, unfeeling.
HARD-HEARTED Copy link • HARD-HEARTEDdurus: animi duri: ferreus (that has a heart like steel or flint): immitis (unmerciful): inhumanus (without feeling, inhuman): asper: asperi animi (rough in behavior, without indulgence): inexorabilis: durus atque inexorabilis (inexorable, hard): immanis: immani acerbaque natura (cruel, of cruel character): ☞ dirus, in this sense, is poetical only. To be hard-hearted, duro esse animo or ingenio.