Unfeeling

Definition: Unfeeling

Unfeeling

Adjective

1. Devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch".

2. Devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees".

Date "unfeeling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonyms: Unfeeling

Synonyms: hardhearted (adj), stonyhearted (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Adjective: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral.
Physical Insensibility	Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unfeeling

English words defined with "unfeeling": brutalise, brutalize, Brutify ♦ degage, detached ♦ flinty ♦ hardhearted ♦ Impassible, In hard condition, Incharitable, Iron-hearted ♦ obdurate ♦ Stone-hearted, stony, stonyhearted ♦ To give one the cold shoulder ♦ uninvolved. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unfeeling": Cash ♦ Mother-in-law ♦ Profanity ♦ Shandean Exactness, Shoes, Shotgun. (references)

Author	Quotation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unfeeling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfeeling" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	67	40,952

Expression using "unfeeling": pitiless unfeeling unkind. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unfeeling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zemërgur (callous, cruel, hard-hearted, heartless, obdurate, stony hearted), i pandjeshëm (dead, hard-hearted, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible). (various references)

Arabic		‏قاسي الفؤاد, ‏قاس (austere, callous, concrete, cruel, cutthroat, drastic, firm, gauge, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, inclement, inflexible, measure, merciless, pitiless, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, ruthless, scale, severe, solid, standardize, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, tape, tough, try on, unkind, unyielding), ‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, vicious, wanton, wild), ‏عديم الشعور (insensate). (various references)

Bulgarian		коравосърдечен (callous, flinthearted, hardhearted, inhumane, obdurate, stony, stony hearted, unforgiving, unpitying, unsympathetic), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), безчувствен (harsh, indurate, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, senseless, stockish, stolid, torpid). (various references)

Chinese		� 情 (Callous, Callousness, heartless, inhumanity, ruthlessness, unsympathetic). (various references)

Czech		necitlivý (dead, insensible, insensitive, thick-skinned, unresponsive, unsusceptible), necitelný (callous, hard boiled, heartless, impassable, rough), bezcitný (cold-hearted, cruel, hard-hearted, heartless, insusceptible, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, stonyhearted, unkind). (various references)

Farsi		فاقداحساسات , سنگدل (Implacability, Implacable, Inexorable, Obdurate, Ungodly, Unholy), بیحس (Callous, Impassive, Insensate, Insensible, Insensitive, Numb, Obtuse, Senseless), بی عاطفه (Callous, Impassive, Inhuman, Insensate, Insensitive, Obdurate, Stolid, Unkind). (various references)

Finnish		tunteeton (unemotional), kova (hard, harsh, loud, severe, stern, strict). (various references)

French		insensible (unmoved). (various references)

German		gefühllos (callous, dead, emotionless, insensate, insensible, insensitive, numb, unfeelingly, unsympathetic, unsympathetically). (various references)

Greek		σκληρόκαρδοσ (hard-hearted, obdurate), αναίσθητοσ (callous, cold blooded, impassible, insensate, insensitive, insentient, senseless, unconscious). (various references)

Hebrew		אכזרי (brutal, cruel, fell, ferocious, inhumane, merciless, savage, tigerish), חסר ר�'ש (impassive). (various references)

Hungarian		érzéketlen (brutish, callous, dead pan, emotionless, have a thick skin, impassible, impassive, impervious, indifferent, inert, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numbed, seared, senseless, thick skin, thick-skinned, unaffected, unmoved). (various references)

Italian		insensibile (callous, coldhearted, dead, hard-hearted, heartless, heartlessly, imperceptible, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, loveless, thick skinned, thick-skinned, ungiving, unkind, unkindly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		薄情 (cold-hearted, cruel, heartless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひに�"じょう (heartless, inhuman), はくじょう (cold-hearted, confession, cruel, heartless), ちもなみ� もない (cold-blooded, heart of stone). (various references)

Korean		무� �한 (Callous, heartless). (various references)

Manx		neuennaghtagh (insensible, insensitive, stony-hearted), feayr-chooishagh (apathetic, frigid, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, languid, phlegmatic, self-possessed). (various references)

Pig Latin		eelingunfay

Portuguese		sem sentimentos (soulless), sem piedade (pitiless, relentless, remorseless, unmerciful), insensível (blind, callous, chill, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint hearted, flinty, frozen chicken, hard, hard boiled, hard-hearted, immune, impassive, impetigo, implant, indifferent, indolently, inhumane, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, inswept, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic), inflexível (die hard, firm, inelastic, inexpedience, inflexible, iron-bound, non-ductile, obdurate, relentless, rigorous, rugged, severe, steadfast, stiff, stony, stubborn, tough, unaccommodating, unbending, uncompromising, unpersuadable, unrelenting, unshrinking, unyielding), duro (adamant, callous, cornered, crapy, crusty, die hard, flinty, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, hard boiled, hard up, heartless, iron, iron-bound, jarring, marble, non-ductile, racking, rocky, rough, rugged, set, severe, shrewd, sinewy, solid, stand up, stern, stiff, toilsome, tough, unkind, unrelenting, unyielding, wiry), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish). (various references)

Romanian		nesimţitor (casehardened, dull, insensate, insusceptible, obdurate), neomenesc (cruel, inhuman), neîndurãtor (grim, harsh, inclement, irremovable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, relentlessly, ruthless), insensibil (callous, cold-hearted, dead, dull, hard-hearted, immune, imperceptible, impervious, indolent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, obdurate), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, violent, violently, wolfish, young). (various references)

Russian		жестокий (atrocious, barbarous, bitter, bloody minded, bloody-minded, brutal, brutish, butcherly, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, doggish, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hard bitten, heathenish, heavy-handed, inhuman, inhumane, iron-handed, keen, mortal, satrapic, uncharitable, unkind, unrelenting), бесчувственный (callous, cold blooded, hardhearted, impassive, insensate, insentient, tearless, torpid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tvrdog srca (flinthearted), neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stolid, stony, tearless, unsusceptible), neosećajan (unsympathetic). (various references)

Spanish		insensible (bloodless, cold-hearted, heartless, imperceptible, impervious, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, irresponsive, pachyderm, pachydermatous, regardless, thick-skinned, unresponsive). (various references)

Swedish		okänslig (callous, dead, dull, immune, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, refractory, unresponsive), känslolös (cold, impassible, impassive, insensate, insentient, uncaring), hjärtlös (heartless, uncaring). (various references)

Turkish		merhametsiz (cruel, draconic, fell, inexorable, inhuman, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, uncharitable, unmerciful, unpitied), insafsız (confiscatory, cutthroat, fell, heartless, inequitable, inhumane, iniquitous, merciless, relentless, ruthless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unfair, unjust, unkind, unmerciful, wrongful), duygusuz (apathetic, apathetical, as cold as charity, bloodless, blunt, callous, coldhearted, conscience-proof, devoid of feelings, dull, frigid, hard-hearted, impassible, insensate, insensitive, marble, matter of fact, numb, obtuse, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, senseless, soulless, steel, stolid, stony, unemotional, unmoved). (various references)

Ukrainian		нечутливий (gross, impassible, impassive, insensate, insensible, insensitive, non-sensitive, senseless, stockish), позбавлений почуттів. (various references)

Vietnamese		t� n nhẫn (cruelly, dispiteous, grim, harsh, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless), nhẫn tâm (cold-hearted, coldly, dispiteous, grim, hard-hearted, iron-fisted, iron-hearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonily), không cảm động, không động lòng (unaffected). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	crudelem, dora, doram, dura, durae, duram, dure, dureque, duri, duriora, duriorem, duris, durissimae, durissimam, durissimo, durissimos, durissimum, durius, duro, duros, durum, durus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unfeeling": unfeelingly, unfeelingness, unfeelingnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unfeeling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: undeling, unfeeding, unfelling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unfeeling" (pronounced unfē"ling)
5	-f ē" l i ng	feeling.
4	-ē" l i ng	annealing, appealing, ceiling, concealing, dealing, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, reeling, repealing, revealing, sealing, Seeling, squealing, stealing, unappealing, wheeling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, ambling, angling, appalling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, killing, kindling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, seedling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-u"
	-2 letters: feeling, fleeing, fueling, genuine, ingenue.
	-3 letters: engine, engulf, feeing, feline, fennel, feuing, funnel, gunnel, ingulf, lungee.
	-4 letters: elfin, ennui, feign, fling, flung, fugle, fungi, genie, guile, ingle, liege, linen, lunge, lungi.
	-5 letters: feel, file, fine, flee, flue, fuel, gene, genu, gien, glee, glen, glue, gulf, iglu, lief, lien, lieu, life, line, ling, linn, luge.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-u"
	+2 letters: unfeelingly, unfeignedly.
	+3 letters: genuflecting, genuflection.
	+4 letters: gainfulnesses, genuflections, unfeelingness.
	+5 letters: fortunetelling, meaningfulness.
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