unsentimental

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adjective

Not sentimental.

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveunsentimental (comparative more unsentimental, superlative most unsentimental)

comparative more unsentimental · superlative most unsentimental

  1. 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, 423
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    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 Club

    Synonyms: unemotional, unfeeling, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivefacing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  9. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  10. Latinsentiō
  11. Latinsentimentum
  12. Old Frenchsentement
  13. Englishsentiment
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  16. Englishsentimental
  17. Englishunsentimental

From un- + sentimental.

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Translations

Danish usentimental
  • usentimentalnot sentimental
German unsentimental
  • unsentimentalnot sentimental
Norwegian Bokmål usentimental
  • usentimentalnot sentimental

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

unsentimental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsentimental

MLA

“unsentimental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsentimental. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsentimental,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsentimental.

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