Unkind

Quick meaning: Unkind is an adjective meaning Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

Meaning

Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
2. (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.

Example Sentences

Before the day I met you, life was so unkind / But you're the key to my peace of mind

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.

In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.

Word Forms

• unkinder
• unkindest

Synonyms for unkind

Depending on context, synonyms include hard, rigorous, brutal, harsh, heartless, pitiless.

Antonyms for unkind

Common opposites include kind.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inhumane, pitiless, cruel, unsympathetic, heartless, harsh.

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