unsympathizingadj.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective]
hard hearteOE
hateleOE
hard-heartedc1225
cruel1297
dure1412
flinty1536
heartless1556
flint-hearted1560
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
unbowelled1592
blunt1594
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
brassy1600
unfeeling1600
cold-blooded1602
cold-hearteda1616
flinty-hearted1629
callous1647
unsympathizing1735
cool-hearted1748
pebble-hearted1816
unsympathetic1823
cold1849
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > unsympathetic
unfeeling1600
uncommiserating1679
uncondoleda1711
unsympathizing1735
brute-like1813
unsympathetic1857
1735–6 R. Savage Volunteer Laureat iv. 7 I, jocund Spring, unsympathizing, see.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 345 When they come out into the world they..become partial, overbearing, and unsympathizing.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xix. 187 The same stern, cold, unsympathizing reserve, which made him..an object of universal conversation and dislike.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 89 Jews..by whom the name and work of the Apostle of the Gentiles were regarded..with unsympathising coldness.
Derivatives
unˈsympathizingly adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adverb]
cruellya1340
unfeelinglyc1374
hard-heartedly1583
callously1756
heartlessly1806
cold-bloodedly1838
unsympathizingly1856
unsympathetically1860
the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > unsympathetically
unsympathizingly1856
unsympathetically1860
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. i. ii. 16 Unless, indeed, the enquiry were conducted unsympathizingly.
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