unkind
AdjectiveUS[uhn-kahynd]/ənˈkaɪnd/2 syllables
Synonyms:
pitiless
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Translations
Adjective Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar
- Spanish
- poco amable
- French
- dur
- German
- unfreundlich
- Italian
- scortese
- Turkish
- kırıcı
- Russian
- недо́брый nedóbryj
- Arabic
- قاسٍ qāsin
- Swedish
- ovänlig
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Un·kind′ adjective
Origin: See Kin kindred.
Having no race or kindred; childless. Obs. & R. William Shakespeare
Un·kind′ adjective
1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. obsolete “Such unkind abominations.” Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth.— Sir Thomas Elyot
— Un·kind′wb-a1′>′ly, adverb — Un·kind′wb-a1′>′ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54