Unfeeling
adjective
Not showing or feeling any emotion, particularly in situations where emotion is expected.
She made her decision in an unfeeling way.
Often appears as...
- unfeeling person
- unfeeling face
adjective
Not capable of physical sensation or feeling.
My feet were unfeeling after standing in the cold for hours.
Often appears as...
- unfeeling hands
- unfeeling feet
adjective
Not showing or feeling any emotion, particularly in situations where emotion is expected.
She made her decision in an unfeeling way.
Often appears as...
- unfeeling person
- unfeeling face
adjective
Not capable of physical sensation or feeling.
My feet were unfeeling after standing in the cold for hours.
Often appears as...
- unfeeling hands
- unfeeling feet
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Disconnection
Use 'unfeeling' to describe someone who does not respond emotionally where it's normally expected.
His unfeeling response to the tragedy shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Compassion
'Unfeeling' implies a lack of empathy and understanding towards others' emotions.
The judge's unfeeling remarks made the plaintiff cry.
Pro Tip 3/3Criticism Implication
'Unfeeling' often carries a negative judgment, criticizing a person's lack of sensitivity or kindness.
Calling her an unfeeling boss, the employees expressed their dissatisfaction.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Disconnection
Use 'unfeeling' to describe someone who does not respond emotionally where it's normally expected.
His unfeeling response to the tragedy shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Compassion
'Unfeeling' implies a lack of empathy and understanding towards others' emotions.
The judge's unfeeling remarks made the plaintiff cry.
Pro Tip 3/3Criticism Implication
'Unfeeling' often carries a negative judgment, criticizing a person's lack of sensitivity or kindness.
Calling her an unfeeling boss, the employees expressed their dissatisfaction.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Disconnection
Use 'unfeeling' to describe someone who does not respond emotionally where it's normally expected.
His unfeeling response to the tragedy shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Lacks Compassion
'Unfeeling' implies a lack of empathy and understanding towards others' emotions.
The judge's unfeeling remarks made the plaintiff cry.
Pro Tip 3/3Criticism Implication
'Unfeeling' often carries a negative judgment, criticizing a person's lack of sensitivity or kindness.
Calling her an unfeeling boss, the employees expressed their dissatisfaction.
Compare with
apatheticcallousharshinconsiderateindifferentinsensitiveresponsivesympathetic
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Quote examples
Jo Brand
British Comedian
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
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Anna Kendrick
American Actress
I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
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Matthew Simpson
American Clergyman
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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Chris Jordan
American Artist
I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.
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Gyles Brandreth
British Actor
Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.
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Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
Quote examples
Jo Brand
British Comedian
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
Quote examples
Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
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Anna Kendrick
American Actress
I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
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Matthew Simpson
American Clergyman
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
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Chris Jordan
American Artist
I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.
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Gyles Brandreth
British Actor
Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.
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Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
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