unfeeling

[uhn-fee-ling]

adjective

1. not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.

   Synonyms: numb

2. unsympathetic; callous.

   an intelligent but unfeeling man.

   Synonyms: hardhearted
   Antonyms: sympathetic

unfeeling

/ ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ /

adjective

1. without sympathy; callous

2. without physical feeling or sensation

Other Word Forms

• unfeelingly adverb
• unfeelingness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfeeling¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English unfelende. See un- ¹, feel, -ing ²

Synonym Study

See hard.

Example Sentences

“I didn’t want to be the only unfeeling monster in the room.”

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Panning “Amélie” is probably the quickest way for a critic to get himself thought of as cynical and unfeeling.

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Brooks and Gordon could easily get away with making “Oh, Hi!” a reverse “Misery,” with Iris as the beleaguered, sympathetic party trapped in a bad dynamic made worse by her unfeeling companion.

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A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside….

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“Be careful about being too dismissive,” Okrepie said, or coming across as unfeeling.

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