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HARDHEARTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hardhearted mean?
• HARDHEARTED (adjective)
The adjective HARDHEARTED has 2 senses:
1. lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
2. devoid of feeling for others
Familiarity information: HARDHEARTED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
Synonyms:
hardhearted; heartless
Similar:
flint; flinty; granitic; obdurate; stony (showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings)
Antonym:
softhearted (easily moved to pity or sorrow)
Derivation:
hardheartedness (an absence of concern for the welfare of others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Devoid of feeling for others
Synonyms:
hardhearted; stonyhearted; unfeeling
Context example:
an unfeeling wretch
Similar:
uncompassionate (lacking compassion or feeling for others)
Derivation:
hardheartedness (an absence of concern for the welfare of others)
Context examples
There, I won't lecture any more, for I know you'll wake up and be a man in spite of that hardhearted girl.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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