Definitions for: Unkind


[adj] (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
[adj] lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
[adj] deficient in humane and kindly feelings
[adj] lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"



Webster (1913) Definition: Un*kind", a. [See Kin kindred.]
Having no race or kindred; childless. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.


Un*kind", a.
1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or
kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Such unkind abominations.''
--Chaucer.

2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or
the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.

He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most
unkind that forgetteth. --Sir T.
Elyot.
-- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.

Synonyms: brutal, cruel, cutting, edged, hard, harsh, heartless, hurtful, inhumane, pitiless, rigorous, stinging, unkindly, unsympathetic

Antonyms: kind

See Also: malign, merciless, unmerciful

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