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UNFEELING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfeeling mean?
• UNFEELING (adjective)
The adjective UNFEELING has 2 senses:
1. devoid of feeling for others
2. devoid of feeling or sensation
Familiarity information: UNFEELING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devoid of feeling for others
Synonyms:
hardhearted; stonyhearted; unfeeling
Context example:
an unfeeling wretch
Similar:
uncompassionate (lacking compassion or feeling for others)
Derivation:
unfeelingness (devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Devoid of feeling or sensation
Context example:
unfeeling trees
Similar:
insensate; insentient (devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation)
Context examples
She hoped no one could have said to her, “How could you be so unfeeling to your father? I must, I will tell you truths while I can.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Upon my word, cried Miss Crawford, you are two of the most disappointing and unfeeling kind friends I ever met with!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I never thought Edward so stubborn, so unfeeling before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And when I received their cold answers and heard the harsh, unfeeling reasoning of these men, my purposed avowal died away on my lips.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mr. Peggotty seemed very much shocked at himself for having made a speech capable of this unfeeling construction, but was prevented from replying, by Peggotty's pulling his sleeve, and shaking her head.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You think me an unfeeling, loose-principled rake: don't you?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Unfeeling, selfish girl!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
How could you be so unfeeling to Miss Bates?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I did not think Charles would have been so unfeeling.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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