| 单词 | heartless |
| 释义 | heartless (once / 1180 pages) adj Someone who's heartless is inconsiderate and insensitive to other people's feelings. It would be heartless to smash a little kid's carefully carved Jack o' lantern. A heartless person might respond glibly to a friend's sad story about his sick grandmother, or push a hungry cat out the door on a rainy night. If you're heartless, you're cold and uncaring. Another, older meaning of this adjective is "lacking courage," from the Old English heortleas, "dispirited or dejected." The modern meaning was coined by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. WORD FAMILYheartless: heartlessly, heartlessness+/heart: heartless, hearts, hearty/hearty: heartier, heartiest, heartily, heartiness, heartyly USAGE EXAMPLESIs family the one haven in a heartless world? Salon(Jan 02, 2017) It’s not a heartless portrayal, but it’s an ambivalent one. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Judge Michael Kay QC told her: "You are a violent, dishonest and deceitful person and ultimately a selfish, heartless killer." BBC(Dec 21, 2016) 1adj lacking in feeling or pity or warmth Syn|Ant hardhearted flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings soft-boiled, softhearted easily moved to pity or sorrow 2adj devoid of courage or enthusiasm Syn spiritless lacking ardor or vigor or energy |
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