un·feel·ing

(ŭn-fē′lĭng)

adj.

1. Having no physical feeling or sensation; insentient.

2. Not sympathetic to others; callous or hardhearted.

un·feel′ing·ly adv.

un·feel′ing·ness n.

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unfeeling

(ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ)

adj

1. without sympathy; callous

2. without physical feeling or sensation

unˈfeelingly adv

unˈfeelingness n

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un•feel•ing

(ʌnˈfi lɪŋ)

adj.

1. having no feeling; insensible or insensate.

2. unsympathetic; callous; hardhearted.

[before 1000]

un•feel′ing•ly, adv.

un•feel′ing•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	unfeeling - devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" stonyhearted, hardhearted uncompassionate - lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare
	2.	unfeeling - 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

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

unfeeling

adjective

1. Lacking physical feeling or sensitivity:

asleep, dead, insensible, insensitive, numb.

2. Completely lacking in compassion:

callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate, stonyhearted.

Translations

insensibile

unfeeling

[ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] ADJ → insensible

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unfeeling

[ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] adj → insensible

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unfeeling

adj → gefühllos; response, reply also → herzlos; look → ungerührt; (= without sensation also) → empfindungslos

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unfeeling

[ʌnˈfiːlɪŋ] adj → insensibile, duro/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail.

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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.

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The unfeeling desire at home to get rid of me has accomplished its object.

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Very unfeeling! I must say it is very unfeeling of him to be running away from his poor little boy.

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The vindication of the loved object is the best balm affection can find for its wounds:--"A man must have so much on his mind," is the belief by which a wife often supports a cheerful face under rough answers and unfeeling words.

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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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He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.

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Are ALL watchmen so unfeeling? Why did this one reply as he did?

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The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London might be too much, she feared, for the strength of his attachment.

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It was the cruelest exhibition--the most wanton, the most unfeeling. The singer would have conquered an audience of American rowdies by her brave, unflinching tranquillity (for she answered encore after encore, and smiled and bowed pleasantly, and sang the best she possibly could, and went bowing off, through all the jeers and hisses, without ever losing countenance or temper:) and surely in any other land than Italy her sex and her helplessness must have been an ample protection to her--she could have needed no other.

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Darya Alexandrovna was firmly convinced of Anna's innocence, and she felt herself growing pale and her lips quivering with anger at this frigid, unfeeling man, who was so calmly intending to ruin her innocent friend.

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'An unfeeling child,' I thought to myself; 'how lightly she dismisses her old playmate's troubles.

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