Meaning of UNKIND
| Pronunciation: | | un'kInd
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- [adj] (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
- [adj] lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
- [adj] deficient in humane and kindly feelings
- [adj] lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"
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| | Synonyms: | | brutal, cruel, cutting, edged, hard, harsh, heartless, hurtful, inhumane, pitiless, rigorous, stinging, unkindly, unsympathetic |
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| | Antonyms: | | kind | | |
| | See Also: | | malign, merciless, unmerciful | |
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\Un*kind"\, a. [See {Kin} kindred.]
Having no race or kindred; childless. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.
\Un*kind"\, a.
1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or
kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Such unkind abominations.''
--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 T.
Elyot.
-- {Un*kind"ly}, adv. -- {Un*kind"ness}, n.
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