Crossword clues for unfeeling
unfeeling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfeeling \Un*feel"ing\, a.
Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
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Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.
To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
--Gray. [1913 Webster] -- Un*feel"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*feel"ing*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English had unfelende, "having no sensation." Middle English had a verb unfeel "be insensible, fail to feel" (early 14c.) as well as unfeelingness "insensibility, loss of sensation," and unfeelingly "without understanding or direct knowledge" (late 14c.), and a verbal noun unfeeling "loss of sensation, lack of feeling." However the word in its main modern meaning "devoid of kindly or tender feelings" is from 1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of feel (v.). Related: Unfeelingly.
Wiktionary
a. Without emotion or sympathy
WordNet
adj. devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: hardhearted, stonyhearted]
devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"
Usage examples of "unfeeling".
The unfeeling candidate for heaven was instructed, not only to resist the grosser allurements of the taste or smell, but even to shut his ears against the profane harmony of sounds, and to view with indifference the most finished productions of human art.
Your letter has made me completely unhappy, and I shall not resist my despair if you persist in the cruel resolve expressed by your unfeeling letter.
They reinfected us, we who had been selected by our environment, who had grown hard and unfeeling to match it.
Maureen and the other students in her class also got the impression that it was going to be up to them as nurses to put warmth and feeling into patient care, because doctors were cold and unfeeling.
She became completely unfeeling as though she was wrapped tightly in a prisonlike shell of her own.
Your letter has made me completely unhappy, and I shall not resist my despair if you persist in the cruel resolve expressed by your unfeeling letter.
An unfeeling fighting machine, she turned and stalked away, leaving only her pinelike scent and the little dish inside the wicket.
I am sure he is telling his wife in his language that you are an unfeeling monster.
I saw Louis again in my mind's eye, and he was not my tender, embraceable lover any longer, so much as an unfeeling angel who had barred me from the Dark Court.
Waiving humanity, national honor, the claims of gratitude, the precious satisfaction arising from deeds of charity and justice to the weak and defenceless, -- the appeal for impartial suffrage addresses itself with great pertinency to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart, and would wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness.
Ish experienced an irrational impulse of his own, to order Red to open fire on the unfeeling bastard.
All this time in Balanga standing in the pasture and later burying some of the dead I tried to think of my wife and two small daughters, sanity, a home and a bed, her breasts and mouth and lovely hands, but she kept drifting away and I was too numb or unfeeling to care really whether I could bring her back, the sight of her standing naked in a dim room, and on the ground next to me a man I had thought to be dead was jacking off, flat on his back, beating it in a quiet frenzy.
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.
Stone filled cavities and did root canals, but it would have been unfeeling not to have said something.
His whole career, as long as I had known him, had been dotted with little eccentricities of a type which an unfeeling world generally stigmatises as shady.