Unsentimental
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsentimental is an adjective meaning Not sentimental.
Meaning
Not sentimental.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Synonyms for unsentimental
Depending on context, synonyms include unemotional, unfeeling, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tough-minded, tough, unsentimentalized, nonsentimental, unsentimentalizing, unsententious.
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