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Definition: Unkind |
UnkindAdjective1. 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: UnkindSynonyms: brutal (adj), cruel (adj), harsh (adj), pitiless (adj), rigorous (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: kind (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Unkind |
| English words defined with "unkind": A clean breach ♦ cuttingly ♦ dirty trick ♦ Half-hearted, harsh, harshly ♦ ill turn, Ingracious, inhospitality, Inofficious ♦ unkindly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unkind": CANNON ♦ Mallet ♦ Slaughter-house ♦ TIME. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 270 | 17,892 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unkind | 2 |
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| 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 | 薄 (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 nieuprzejmy (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unpleasant). (various references) 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) 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) 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) ascaoin. (various references) 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) 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) ovänlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unfriendly, ungracious, unpleasant). (various references) 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) нем'який, недобрий (alien, naughty, wicked). (various references) không tốt t n nhẫn, không tử tế (ungracious), ác (evil, malevolent, scathing, smashing). (various references) angharedig, anfynud (discourteous, rough, unrefined), anfwyn (uncivil, ungentle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AsunetouV asunqetouV astorgouV aspondouV anelehmonaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Insipientes inconpositos sine affectione absque foedere sine misericordia |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hi sind wittleas, æwleas, heorteleas and miltsleas. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Vnwise, vnmanerli, withouten loue, withouten boond of pees, with outen merci. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which 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 English | 1611 | King James | Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | hungog, walay paglaban sa pulong, walay kasingkasing, mabangis. |
| Chinese | 無 知 的 、 背 約 的 、 無 親 情 的 、 不 憐 憫 人 的 . |
| Croatian | nerazumni, nevjerni, bešæutni, nemilosrdni. |
| Danish | uforstandige, troløse, ukærlige, ubarmhjertige; |
| Dutch | Onverstandigen, verbondbrekers, zonder natuurlijke liefde, onverzoenlijken, onbarmhartigen; |
| Finnish | vailla ymmärrystä, luotettavuutta, rakkautta ja laupeutta; |
| French | de loyauté, d`affection naturelle, de miséricorde. |
| German | Unvernünftige, Treulose, Lieblose, unversöhnlich, unbarmherzig. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | mereka tidak mau mengerti orang lain; mereka tidak setia dan tidak berperikemanusiaan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | tiada berakal, orang yang mungkirkan janji, tiada penyayang, tiada berbelaskasihan; |
| Italian | insensati, sleali, senza cuore, senza misericordia. |
| Latvian | Neprâtîgi, nesaticîgi, cietsirdîgi, neuzticîgi, neþçlîgi. |
| Maori | Kahore o ratou matauranga, he hunga kupu taka, kahore nei he aroha, kahore e tohu tangata: |
| Norwegian | uforstandige, upålitelige, ukjærlige, ubarmhjertige; |
| Rumanian | fqrq pricepere, cqlcqtori de cuvknt, fqrq dragoste fireascq, neknduplecayi, fqrq milq. |
| Russian | 'ЕЪТБУУХ"ОЩ, ЧЕТПМПНОЩ, ОЕМА'ПЧОЩ, ОЕ ТЙНЙТЙНЩ, ОЕНЙМПУФЙЧЩ. |
| Shuar | Enentáincha ainiawai. Tana nuna umichu ainiawai. Anenkartichu ásar waitnenkartichu ainiawai. Tsankurcha ainiawai. |
| Spanish | insensatos, desleales, crueles y sin misericordia. |
| Swahili | hawana dhamiri, hawatimizi ahadi zao, hawana wema wala huruma kwa wengine. |
| Swedish | oförståndiga, trolösa, utan kärlek till sina egna, utan barmhärtighet mot andra. |
| Uma | Uma-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. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unkind": unkinder, unkindest, unkindlier, unkindliest, unkindliness, unkindlinesses, unkindly, unkindness, unkindnesses. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unkind" (pronounced unkī"nd) |
| 5 | -n k ī" n d | mankind. |
| 4 | -k ī" n d | kind. |
| 3 | -ī" n d | aligned, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6B 69 6E 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.- .. -. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n k i n d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558077758070 |
| 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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