unfeeling

Examples

• All

• I do understand his sentiment, but I think it was rather unfeeling in how it was done.

  Blog text (30)

• I never knew it was possible for a medical doctor to be so unfeeling.

  Young Doctors in Love (1982)

• Raise a child with justice alone, and the result will be an unfeeling bully.

  Academic text (2008)

• How could you be so unfeeling to Miss Bates?

  Emma (1996)

• Many others remained victims throughout, blaming school, unfeeling teachers, racism, and their circumstances for their own personal failures.

  Academic text (2015)

• Like everyone else, Marian is only staking out her place in this unfeeling world.

  Fiction book (1996)

• How can one drink the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr Scrooge?

  A Christmas Carol (2009)

• Merry Christmas to the stingy, unfeeling, unkind founder of the feast: Mr. Scrooge.

  Fiction book (1998)

• As readers witness the tumultuous effects Edgar's misinterpretations have on Camilla, Edgar seems confident, unfeeling, narcissistic, and hypercritical.

  Academic text (2018)

• His unfeeling response to the tragedy shocked everyone at the meeting.

Synonyms

C

cold

vsunfeeling

883 4.4

Unfriendly and distant in feeling or action

is emotionally distant in feeling and tone rather than merely unfriendly

H

heartless

vsunfeeling

• Offensive

79 4.1

Not showing kindness or sympathy to others

is emotionally distant but may not intend active cruelty toward others

C

callous

vsunfeeling

41 7.3

Not caring about other people's feelings or pain

is emotionally distant but not necessarily cruel or deliberately harmful

U

uncaring

vsunfeeling

18 4.2

Not showing concern for other people's feelings or needs

is emotionally distant without implying indifference in every action

U

unsympathetic

vsunfeeling

7 4.9

Not feeling sorry for someone or caring about their problems

is emotionally distant rather than only failing to express concern

C

coldhearted

vsunfeeling

4 6.0

Showing no care or sympathy for other people

is emotionally distant and insensitive without implying active cruelty

C

cold as ice

vsunfeeling

• Informal

4 7.2

Not showing any feeling or kindness to others

is emotionally distant in plain terms rather than using figurative emphasis

U

uncompassionate

vsunfeeling

1 7.3

Not caring when other people suffer

is emotionally distant in general rather than specifically lacking compassion

H

hardhearted

vsunfeeling

1 7.2

Not feeling or showing pity for other people

is emotionally distant but not always strongly resistant to feeling

U

unsympathizing

vsunfeeling

7.9

Not showing care or understanding for other people's feelings

is emotionally distant but may not actively refuse to help

U

unpitying

vsunfeeling

8.8

Not showing kindness or mercy when others suffer

is emotionally distant rather than deliberately harsh or merciless

I

indurate

vsunfeeling

• Formal

9.9

Not able to feel or show care for other people

is emotionally distant but does not stress long term hardening

S

stonyhearted

vsunfeeling

9.6

Not feeling sorry for other people

is emotionally distant without necessarily conveying such extreme firmness

C

cold as charity

vsunfeeling

• Archaic

9.9

Acting kind but not showing real care

is emotionally distant without the ironic or poetic emphasis of that phrase

C

cold-livered

vsunfeeling

• Offensive

9.9

Does not feel or show care for other people

is emotionally distant rather than highlighting personal cowardice or cruelty

Antonyms

E

empathetic

30 4.4

To understand and share other people's feelings

How Compassionate

compassionate

151 3.7

empathetic

30 4.4

sympathetic

152 3.4

indifferent

46 4.4

unfeeling

14 5.9

callous

41 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology