Unfeeling

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unfeeling \Un*feel"ing\, a.
     1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible;
        insensate.
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     2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.


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              To each his sufferings: all are men,
              Condemned alike to groan;
              The tender for another's pain,
              Th' unfeeling for his own.            --Gray.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*feel"ing*ly}, adv. --
        {Un*feel"ing*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unfeeling
       adj 1: devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: {hardhearted},
               {stonyhearted}]
       2: devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  167 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfeeling":
     abiotic, affectless, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetized, arctic,
     asleep, autistic, azoic, benumbed, blunt, bowelless, brutal,
     callosity, callous, calloused, callousness, cantankerous,
     catatonic, chill, chilly, churlish, cold, cold as charity,
     cold of heart, cold-blooded, coldblooded, coldbloodedness,
     coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, cool, crotchety, cruel,
     dead, deadened, deadness, dispassionate, dog-eat-dog, drugged,
     dull, dullness, dumb, electronarcosis, emotionally dead,
     emotionless, exacting, exanimate, flinthearted, flinty, frigid,
     frosted, frosty, frozen, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled,
     hardened, hardhearted, hardheartedness, hardness,
     hardness of heart, harsh, heart of stone, heartless, heartlessness,
     icy, immovable, impassibility, impassible, impassive, imperception,
     imperceptive, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience,
     impercipient, inanimate, inanimated, inclement, inconsiderateness,
     indurated, inert, inexcitable, inexorable, insensate,
     insensibility, insensible, insensibleness, insensitive,
     insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insentient,
     insusceptible, ironhearted, lifeless, marblehearted, merciless,
     mute, narcosis, narcotization, nonconscious, nonemotional,
     nonliving, numb, numbed, numbness, obduracy, obdurate, objective,
     obtuse, obtuseness, out of touch, passionless, pins and needles,
     pitiless, pitilessness, relentless, remorseless, ruthless,
     self-absorbed, senseless, severe, soulless, spiritless, stony,
     stonyhearted, surly, thick skin, thick-skinned, thick-witted,
     tough, unaffectionate, unamiable, unanimated, uncompassionate,
     uncompassioned, unconscious, uncordial, unemotional, unfeelingness,
     unfelt, unforgiving, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unkind,
     unloving, unmerciful, unmercifulness, unnatural, unnaturalness,
     unpassionate, unperceptive, unperceptiveness, unpitiful, unpitying,
     unremorseful, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness,
     unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untouchable,
     unyielding, without mercy