ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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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