Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no physical feeling or sensation; insentient.
- adj. Not sharing in the pleasures or pains of others; callous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Devoid of feeling; insensible; void of sensibility. Devoid of sympathy with others; hard-hearted; unsympathetic; cruel.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
- adj. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. devoid of feeling for others
- adj. devoid of feeling or sensation
Etymologies
- un- + feeling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But then, cruel and unfeeling is probably how you have risen to the position you presently enjoy at State.”
“Enemy Combatant has been praised in Britain for Begg's outstanding liberality of mind and evenhandedness toward his captors, some of whom are described as unfeeling brutes, others as decent human beings who become his "friends.”
“It was a vile letter to have written — not because the language was bad, or the mode of expression unfeeling, or the facts falsely stated — but because the thing to be told was in itself so vile.”
“I have seen a child scolded and called unfeeling because it did not occur to it to make a theatrical demonstration of affectionate delight when its mother returned after an absence: a typical example of the way in which spurious family sentiment is stoked up.”
“Don't run upstairs alone; consider the butler's feelings!" called her unfeeling spouse after her.”
“It was a vile letter to have written -- not because the language was bad, or the mode of expression unfeeling, or the facts falsely stated -- but because the thing to be told was in itself so vile.”
“I did not call her unfeeling long, for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master, as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.”
“Mrs. Hale called her unfeeling for saying this; and never gave herself breathing-time till the basket was sent out of the house.”
“I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.”
“And then we get blamed for being 'inconsiderate', 'insensitive', 'uncaring', and 'unfeeling' - others are constantly reminding us that we must 'remember our place'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unfeeling’.
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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