unsympathizing

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adjective

Failing to sympathize; lacking sympathy

Scrabble 34

Meanings

adjectiveunsympathizing (not comparable)

alternative unsympathising

  1. not comparableFailing to sympathize; lacking sympathy
    1 more example

    It is often affirmed that utilitarianism renders men cold and unsympathizing; that it chills their moral feelings towards individuals; that it makes them regard only the dry and hard consideration of the consequences of actions, not taking into their moral estimate the qualities from which those actions emanate.

    1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

    Synonyms: unsympathetic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveFailing to sympathize; lacking sympathy

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot showing or expressing sympathy

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. Englishsympathizing
  9. Englishunsympathizing

From un- + sympathizing.

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Chicago

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