unfeeling
/ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ
/adjective
1Unsympathetic, harsh, or callous: my mother is a cold, unfeeling woman...
- I don't mean to sound callous or unfeeling, and I can appreciate that the parents themselves are full of joy, but I just can't summon up any ersatz enthusiasm for other people's children.
- More than likely their communication was very poor, but for the authorities to maintain that they were not seeking asylum and send them to Indonesia was callous and unfeeling.
- They had been harsh and unfeeling toward the poor.
Synonyms
uncaring, unsympathetic, unemotional, unfriendly, uncharitable;
hard-hearted, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, heartless, hard, harsh, austere, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, callous, cruel, severe, pitiless, ruthless, unforgiving, unpitying, inhumane, brutal, sadistic, inhuman
informal hard-boiled, hard-nosed, thick-skinned
2Lacking physical sensation or sensitivity: he lowered his numb, unfeeling body into a seat and closed his eyes...
- Worn over her unfeeling body, the suit gave the thirty-something Casey the strength of twenty men, and made her almost impervious to harm as well as giving her certain enhanced sensory abilities.
- The pain dulled his senses, making him an empty, unfeeling shell marching along the rough terrain.
Derivatives
unfeelingly
- Many are the times I have wandered down the streets of this fair city and witnessed deranged clowns unfeelingly pushing their greasy wares down the necks of protesting and luckless, innocent passers-by.
- Fanny silently condemns him: ‘Never happier than when behaving so dishonorably and unfeelingly!’
- ‘No, get out of my way,’ she responded unfeelingly.
unfeelingness
- The plot depends upon the unfeelingness of the English upper classes of the 1930s.
- A special little book, an antidote to the stress, fury and unfeelingness of many people's hurried, everyday lives.
- In short, when the heart is hard, there will be a general unfeelingness toward God.
Origin
Late Old English unfēlende 'insensible' (see un-1, feeling).
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