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unfeeling

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un·feel·ing  (n-flng)
adj.
1. Having no physical feeling or sensation; insentient.
2. Not sharing in the pleasures or pains of others; callous.

un·feeling·ly adv.
un·feeling·ness n.

unfeeling [ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ]
adj
1. without sympathy; callous
2. without physical feeling or sensation
unfeelingly  adv
unfeelingness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unfeelingunfeeling - devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
uncompassionate - lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare
2.unfeelingunfeeling - devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"
insensate, insentient - devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"

unfeeling
adjective callous, insensitive, heartless, cold, cruel, hardened, stony, inhuman, unsympathetic, uncaring, apathetic, pitiless, hardhearted an unfeeling bully who used his huge size to frighten people
callous kind, sensitive, caring, feeling, concerned, gentle, sympathetic, humane, benevolent
Translations
unfeeling [ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] ADJinsensible
unfeeling [ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] adjinsensible
unfeeling
adjgefühllos; response, reply alsoherzlos; lookungerührt; (= without sensation also)empfindungslos
unfeeling [ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] adjinsensibile, duro/a
unfeeling [ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] adjinsensibile, duro/a


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A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail.
She had large unfeeling handsome eyes, and dark unfeeling handsome hair, and a broad unfeeling handsome bosom, and was made the most of in every particular.
Without making the least objection to the punishment, the Leather-Stocking quietly seated himself on the ground, and suffered his limbs to be laid in the openings, without even a murmur; though he cast one glance about him, in quest of that sympathy that human nature always seems to require under suffering “ but he met no direct manifestations of pity, neither did he see any unfeeling exultation, or hear a single reproachful epithet.
 
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