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unsympaˈthetic, a.
(un-1 7; cf. sympathetic a. 2 b.)
1823Byron Island iv. xiii, But calm and careless heaved the wave below, Eternal with unsympathetic flow. 1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë II. 327 The critical, unsympathetic public. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. ii. 36 We are not left in the power of blind unsympathetic nature. 1937L. MacNeice in Ess. & Stud. XXII. 145, I have recently been to an exhibition of nineteenth-century French painting and was surprised to find it so unsympathetic. 1946Ann. Reg. 1945 438 Dreiser was a most unsympathetic personality, yet during the 1920's he was regarded as probably the most impressive figure in American literature since Walt Whitman. 1968B. Foster Changing Eng. Lang. ii. 75 Sympathetic and unsympathetic have latterly taken on an extra meaning in imitation of French idiom (or possibly also Spanish), where sympathique means ‘likable’. 1981Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 16/6 An insidious invasion, unfamiliar, unsympathetic, alien.
Hence unsympaˈthetically adv.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. vii, The ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance. |