ANT: Complacency, self-approval, self-congratulation.
=
KEY: Remorseless.
SYN: Cruel, truculent, inexorable, ruthless, pitiless, unrelenting, merciless, implacable.
ANT: Mild, humane, gentle, feeling, compunctious, lenient, remorseful, self-condemning, regretful, compassionate.
=
KEY: Remote.
SYN: Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, separate, contingent.
ANT: Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate, essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual.
=