• forbearing, long-suffering, meek
• to bilge, to leak, to spring a leak
• apathetic, brutish, callous, dead, emotionless, have a thick skin, immovable, impassive, impervious, indifferent, inert, insensible, insensitive, insentient, numb, numbed, soulless, unfeeling, unmoved, wizen-hearted