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Unkind

Definition: Unkind

Unkind

Adjective

1. Lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all".

2. Deficient in humane and kindly feelings.

3. Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy.

4. (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unkind" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Synonyms: Unkind

Synonyms: brutal (adj), cruel (adj), harsh (adj), pitiless (adj), rigorous (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: kind (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unkind

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Malevolence

Harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious; invidious; uncandid; churlish; (discourteous); surly, sullen; a.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unkind

English words defined with "unkind": A clean breachcuttinglydirty trickHalf-hearted, harsh, harshlyill turn, Ingracious, inhospitality, Inofficiousunkindly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unkind": CANNONMalletSlaughter-houseTIME. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unkind

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Raziel the Abyss has been unkind. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

You can take a man's body and beat it, you can take his soul and fry it, but to do this to a hamburger, it's just downright unkind! (Sliders; writing credit: Javier Azpeitia; Margarita Mareo)

Don't you never say an unkind word about the Time. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

You mustn't say unkind things about Melanie. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard)

Lyrics

And life seems so unkind (I Made It Through The Rain; performing artist: Barry Manilow)

With no intentions of being unkind, (Carrie; performing artist: Europe)

And any other thought is unkind (We'll Be Together; performing artist: Sting)

The world outside looks so unkind (Drift Away; performing artist: The Nylons)

Don't think me unkind (De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da; performing artist: The Police)

Clever

If someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it. (references; author: unknown)

I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unkind

DomainTitle

Books

  • Okot the Unkind Rainmaker (reference)

  • The Tale of the Kind and the Unkind Girls: Aa-Th 480 and Related Tales (Classics in Folklore) (reference)

  • Unkind Word and Other Stories: And Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Ser.) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Familiar Quotations: Unkind

AuthorQuotation

Samuel Butler

Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude much worse than this.

William Shakespeare

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unkind

"Unkind" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unkind" is used about 270 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%27017,892

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unkind

Expressions using "unkind": an unkind cut be unkind to be unkind to animals pitiless unfeeling unkind unkind answer unkind person unkind to the skin. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unkind

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unkind

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Modern Translation: Unkind

Language Translations for "unkind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i rreptë (austere, hard, hard and fast, iron-handed, raucous, rigorous, severe, slashing, strict, stringent, tough, unmerciful, unrelenting), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏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, unfeeling, unyielding), ‏غير كريم, ‏صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unyielding). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

невнимателен (careless, distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unheeding), нелюбезен (unamiable, unceremonious, ungracious), 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, unfeeling, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(belittle, despise, frivolous, meagre, mean, peppermint, slight, small, thin, to approach, to go near, ungenerous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zlomyslný (bitchy, catty, despiteful, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, spiteful, unfriendly, vicious), tvrdý (big, brazen, callous, crackdown, cruel, deep, hard, harsh, heavy, relentless, rigorous, sound, steely, stiff, stone-dead, stony, tough), nevlídný (dismal, gruff, inclement, rugged, sour, stern, surly, testy, uncongenial, unfriended, unfriendly), nelaskavý (hard, uncharitable), krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, dispiteous, extreme, fierce, gory, grim, hard, harsh, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, savage, severe, torsion, unrelenting, vicious, wolfish), jízlivý (acerbic, blistering, catty, scathing, sneering, snide, spiteful, waspish, wry), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark), bezcitný (cold-hearted, cruel, hard-hearted, heartless, insusceptible, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, stonyhearted, unfeeling). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uvenlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, nasty, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onaardig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), nurks (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), nors (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), honds (brutal, gruff, harsh, impolite, rough, rude, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), bars (abrupt, brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malafabla (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

óblíður (bleak, brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نامهربان (Inhospitable, Unmerciful, Unmercifully), بی مهر, بی محبت , بی عاطفه (Callous, Impassive, Inhuman, Insensate, Insensitive, Obdurate, Stolid, Unfeeling). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ynseä (disobliging, ill-disposed, unobliging), tyly (brusque, gruff, harsh), karsas, epäystävällinen (unfriendly), epäsuopea (harsh, ill-dispodes, severe). (various references)

   

French

  

rude, rigoureux, peu gentil, maussade (unpleasant), méchant, cruel, acerbe. (various references)

   

German

  

unwirsch (brusque, brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, short-temperedly, sour, stroppy, sullen, surly, testily, testy, unpleasant), ungnädig (harsh, ungracious, ungraciously), unfreundlich (cheerless, cold, forbidding, inclement, standoffish, unaffable, uncharitable, uncordial, uncourteous, unfriendly, ungracious, ungraciously, unhelpful, unkindly, unneighborly, unpleasant, unpleasantly), spitz (acute, barbed, cuspid, cutting, haggard, horny, peaked, peaky, petty, pinched, pointed, pointedly, pomeranian, Randy, sharp, spiked, spiky, Spitz), schlecht (amiss, bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), rücksichtslos (heedless, heedlessly, inconsiderate, inconsiderately, irrespective, irrespectively, reckless, regardlessly, ruthless, thoughtless), nicht nett (uncharitable, unkindly), lieblos (inconsiderate, loveless, uncaring, uncharitable, uncharitably, unkindly, unloving, unlovingly), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked), brummig (brutal, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, harsh, peevish, rough, sour, sour-tempered, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άστοργοσ (loveless), αφιλοφρών. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אכזר (barbarous, cruel, inclement), רע (bad, evil, harm, inferior, maleficence, noxious, repugnant, trouble, wicked, wickedness, woe, wrong). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rideg (austere, brittle, brusque, burly, cold, crabby, hard, impassible, rigid, severe, short, unfriendly), barátságtalan (austere, chilly, cold, crabby, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, gaunt, gruff, ill natured, inhospitable, pouty, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, unaccommodating, unaffable, unfriendly). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

óvingjarnlegur (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), óvænn (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak enak (disagreeable), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, vulgar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scortese (discourteous, disobliging, impolite, rude, unfriendly, ungracious, unneighborly), rude (brutal, coarse, gruff, harsh, rough, rude, rugged, sour, sullen, surly, tough, unpleasant), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, cavalier, downright, gruff, harsh, offhand, offhanded, outspoken, rough, sharp, short, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

邪険 (cruel, hard hearted), 意地悪 (ill-tempered, malicious). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いじわる (ill-tempered, malicious), じゃけ" (cruel, cruelty, evil point of view, hard hearted, hard-heartedness). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

uvennlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indunkay

   

Polish

  

nieuprzejmy (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, crusty, currish, faultfinding, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unpleasant), pouco amável (unfriendly), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), 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, unfeeling, 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, unfeeling, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), brusco (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, brutal, curt, gruff, harsh, hit-and-run, jerky, rough, sour, sudden, surly, unceremonious, unpleasant), arisco (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, shy, sour, surly, unpleasant, unsociable). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nemilos (cruel, fell, hard, harsh, merciless, pitiless, ruthless), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, violent, wiry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недобрый (unchristian), злой (bad tempered, bad-tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, cattish, evil, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, scathing, squinteyed, surly, vicious, vixenish). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ascaoin. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nevaljao (arch, naughty, rogue, roguish, unrighteous, wicked), neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), neobziran, neljubazan (disagreeable, disobliging, thoughtless, unaffable, unfriendly, unobliging). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

brusko (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant), bronco (abrupt, brazen, brittle, brutal, crude, gruff, harsh, raw, rough, ruffianly, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant, unworked, unwrought). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ovänlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unfriendly, ungracious, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), nezaketsiz (brusque, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, indelicate, offhand, rude, short-spoken, unchivalrous, uncivil), kırıcı (breaker, cutting, disobliging, galling, harsh, injurious, invidious, offending, scathing, scorching, shocking, stinging), insafsız (confiscatory, cutthroat, fell, heartless, inequitable, inhumane, iniquitous, merciless, relentless, ruthless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unfair, unfeeling, unjust, unmerciful, wrongful), düşmanca (hostile, inhospitably, like an enemy, unfriendly, virulent). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нем'який, недобрий (alien, naughty, wicked). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không tốt t n nhẫn, không tử tế (ungracious), ác (evil, malevolent, scathing, smashing). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

angharedig, anfynud (discourteous, rough, unrefined), anfwyn (uncivil, ungentle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unkind

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

iniqua, iniquae, iniquam, iniquas, inique, iniqui, iniquis, iniquissimas, iniquius, iniquo, iniquorum, iniquos, iniquum, iniquus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Unkind

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 1, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAsunetouV asunqetouV astorgouV aspondouV anelehmonaV
Latin405VulgateInsipientes inconpositos sine affectione absque foedere sine misericordia
Old English990West SaxonHi sind wittleas, æwleas, heorteleas and miltsleas.
Middle English1395WyclifVnwise, vnmanerli, withouten loue, withouten boond of pees, with outen merci.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhich me though they knew the rightewesnes of God how that they which soche thinges commyt are worthy of deeth yet not only do the same but also have pleasure in them that do them.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWithout understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Victorian English1833WebsterWithout understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Basic English1964OgdenWithout knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Unkind

LanguageRomans Chapter 1, Verse 31
Cebuanohungog, walay paglaban sa pulong, walay kasingkasing, mabangis.
Chinese無 知 的 、 背 約 的 、 無 親 情 的 、 不 憐 憫 人 的 .
Croatiannerazumni, nevjerni, bešæutni, nemilosrdni.
Danishuforstandige, troløse, ukærlige, ubarmhjertige;
DutchOnverstandigen, verbondbrekers, zonder natuurlijke liefde, onverzoenlijken, onbarmhartigen;
Finnishvailla ymmärrystä, luotettavuutta, rakkautta ja laupeutta;
Frenchde loyauté, d`affection naturelle, de miséricorde.
GermanUnvernünftige, Treulose, Lieblose, unversöhnlich, unbarmherzig.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-harimereka tidak mau mengerti orang lain; mereka tidak setia dan tidak berperikemanusiaan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamatiada berakal, orang yang mungkirkan janji, tiada penyayang, tiada berbelaskasihan;
Italianinsensati, sleali, senza cuore, senza misericordia.
LatvianNeprâtîgi, nesaticîgi, cietsirdîgi, neuzticîgi, neþçlîgi.
MaoriKahore o ratou matauranga, he hunga kupu taka, kahore nei he aroha, kahore e tohu tangata:
Norwegianuforstandige, upålitelige, ukjærlige, ubarmhjertige;
Rumanianfqrq pricepere, cqlcqtori de cuvknt, fqrq dragoste fireascq, neknduplecayi, fqrq milq.
Russian'ЕЪТБУУХ"ОЩ, ЧЕТПМПНОЩ, ОЕМА'ПЧОЩ, ОЕ ТЙНЙТЙНЩ, ОЕНЙМПУФЙЧЩ.
ShuarEnentáincha ainiawai. Tana nuna umichu ainiawai. Anenkartichu ásar waitnenkartichu ainiawai. Tsankurcha ainiawai.
Spanishinsensatos, desleales, crueles y sin misericordia.
Swahilihawana dhamiri, hawatimizi ahadi zao, hawana wema wala huruma kwa wengine.
Swedishoförståndiga, trolösa, utan kärlek till sina egna, utan barmhärtighet mot andra.
UmaUma-ra monono, uma-ra mpo'ihii' tipa' -ra, uma ria ahi' -ra, uma ria petulungi-ra hi doo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Unkind

Derivations

Words beginning with "unkind": unkinder, unkindest, unkindlier, unkindliest, unkindliness, unkindlinesses, unkindly, unkindness, unkindnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Unkind" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hunkinde, inkind, Kunkin, Mungindi, punkoid, unakin, Uncid, unik, unim, unkink, unkn, unzin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unkind"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unkind" (pronounced unkī"nd)
5-n k ī" n dmankind.
4-k ī" n dkind.
3-ī" n daligned, assigned, behind, bind, blind, combined, confined, consigned, declined, defined, designed, dined, disinclined, enshrined, entwined, find, fined, grind, hind, inclined, intertwined, lined, maligned, mind, mined, opined, realigned, reassigned, redefined, redesigned, refined, remind, resigned, rind, shined, signed, twined, unconfined, undefined, undermined, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unkind

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nudnik.

Words within the letters "d-i-k-n-n-u"

-2 letters: dink, dunk, kind.

-3 letters: din, dui, dun, ink, inn, kid, kin, nun.

-4 letters: id, in, nu, un.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-k-n-n-u"
 

+1 letter: dunking, nudnick, nudniks.

 

+2 letters: nudnicks, unkinder, unkindly, unkinked, unlinked.

 

+3 letters: debunking, humankind, kundalini, undocking, unkindest, unknitted.

 

+4 letters: kundalinis, unkindlier, unkindness, wunderkind.

 

+5 letters: buckskinned, outdrinking, undertaking, undrinkable, unkindliest, wunderkinds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unkind


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6B 69 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -.-    ..    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006B 0069 006E 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558077758070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Bible Trace
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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