Meanings
comparative more unsentimental · superlative most unsentimental
- Not sentimental.
The traditional British signal is on its way out. Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches.
1957 June 28, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 4231 more example
But my favorite line of the sequence, and possibly the entire episode, is Homer asking his deeply irritated elderly neighbor, “Trying to run out the clock in Florida, eh?” That’s such a brutally funny, boldly unsentimental and coldly true bit of dialogue.
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV ClubSynonyms: unemotional, unfeeling, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot sentimental.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefacing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*sent-
- Proto-Italic*sentiō
- Latinsentiō
- Latinsentimentum
- Old Frenchsentement
- Englishsentiment
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishsentimental
- Englishunsentimental
From un- + sentimental.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish usentimental
- usentimentalnot sentimental
German unsentimental
- unsentimentalnot sentimental
Norwegian Bokmål usentimental
- usentimentalnot sentimental
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unsentimental
Cite this entry
unsentimental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsentimental
“unsentimental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsentimental. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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