unfeeling
Americanadjective
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not feeling; devoid of feeling; insensible or insensate.
- Synonyms:
- numb
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unsympathetic; callous.
an intelligent but unfeeling man.
- Synonyms:
- hardhearted
- Antonyms:
- sympathetic
adjective
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without sympathy; callous
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without physical feeling or sensation
Related Words
See hard.
Other Word Forms
- unfeelingly adverb
- unfeelingness noun
Etymology
Origin of unfeeling
before 1000; Middle English; Old English unfelende. See un- 1, feel, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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Humans often defer to AI because its calculating, unfeeling nature implies objective authority, ignoring the reality that AI knowledge learns from the past to predict the future.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
When he dismisses a contagion that killed millions as a “global gob of spit,” Mr. Tesson seems unfeeling and out of touch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
“I didn’t want to be the only unfeeling monster in the room.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism.
From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023
That pair hadn’t been brown or warm—they’d been cold, black, and utterly unfeeling.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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