Unsympathetic

Definition: Unsympathetic

Unsympathetic

Adjective

1. Not sympathetic or disposed toward; "unsympathetic officialdom"; "people unsympathetic to the revolution"; "his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic".

2. (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic".

3. Not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas".

4. Lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly acts".

5. Not agreeing with your tastes or expectations; "found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it"; "a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him".

Date "unsympathetic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Unsympathetic

Synonyms: closed (adj), disagreeable (adj), unappealing (adj), unkindly (adj), unlikable (adj), unlikeable (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: sympathetic (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disagreement	Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unsympathetic

English words defined with "unsympathetic": aloofness ♦ carelessly, construction ♦ disagreeable ♦ Hard-hearted ♦ incautiously ♦ remoteness ♦ short shrift, standoffishness, summary treatment ♦ twist ♦ unsympathetically ♦ withdrawnness, without sympathy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unsympathetic": Pilgrim. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Tilly's Unsympathetic Uncle (1911)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Hans Christian Anderson	Eighty per cent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Unsympathetic peers, too, sometimes may make matters worse, through teasing or ridicule. (references)
Civil Liberties	Togo	Although a grandfather clause applies to those already active in journalism, observers believe that this law could be used to prevent persons seen as unsympathetic to the Government from becoming journalists. (references)
Human Rights	Ukraine	Critics of the Government also claimed credibly that the Government abused its authority over officers of the court by selectively charging and dismissing politically unsympathetic judges. (references)
Women	Hungary	Police and prosecutors usually are unsympathetic to victims of domestic abuse. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Nancy Pelosi	Well, when I said that they were connected, I don't know if you want to draw the inference I said that Osama bin Laden was involved, but that certainly those unsympathetic to our country were.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unsympathetic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsympathetic" is used about 155 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%	155	25,240

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.

Language		Translations for "unsympathetic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, languid, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, snooty, uninterested), moskokëçarës (indifferent, inobservant, light, negligent, nonchalant, reckless). (various references)

Bulgarian		коравосърдечен (callous, flinthearted, hardhearted, inhumane, obdurate, stony, stony hearted, unfeeling, unforgiving, unpitying), несимпатичен (antipathetic, antipathetical, unlovable), бездушен (exanimate, heartless, indurate, niminy-piminy, soulless, spiritless, toneless, torpid, unanimated). (various references)

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

Czech		nesympatický (unlovable), nemající soucit, lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested). (various references)

French		déplaisant (unfriendly, unkind, unneighborly, unpleasant). (various references)

German		unsympathisch (disagreeable, off putting, unappealing, unattractive, uncongenial, unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant). (various references)

Greek		άπονοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		részvétlen. (various references)

Italian		antipatico (disagreeable, invidious, unpleasant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疎ましい (adverse, disagreeable, unpleasant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うとましい (adverse, disagreeable, unpleasant). (various references)

Pig Latin		ympatheticunsay

Portuguese		sem compaixão (cold-hearted, ruthless), insensível (blind, callous, chill, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, coldlivered, flint-hearted, flinty, frozen, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, irresponsive, keen, laodicean, lukewarm, marble, seared, stony, unfeeling, unresponsive, unsusceptible), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil-may-care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, iceness, ilium, impassive, lifeless, nipping, nonchalant, parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tepid, unresponsive, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Russian		несочувствующий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neosećajan (unfeeling). (various references)

Spanish		no simpático. (various references)

Swedish		osymatisk, oförstående (inappreciative, puzzled, uncomprehending), likgiltig (apathetic, apathetical, half hearted, immaterial, inapprehensive, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, lackadaisical, languid, perfunctory, unconcerned), föga medlidsam. (various references)

Turkish		soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, wintry), sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unlovely, unprepossessing), halden anlamayan, anlayışsız (blind, blunt, dim, inconsiderate, insensitive, purblind, undiscerning). (various references)

Ukrainian		неспівчуваючий, антипатичний (antipathetic, antipathetical). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô tình (bloodless, casual, heartless, indeliberate, promiscuous, unconcerned, untouched), l nh đạm (unresponsive, untouched), không thông cm, không động lòng thưng khô khan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unsympathetic": unsympathetically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unsympathetic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansympathetic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unsympathetic" (pronounced unsi'mputhe"tik)
10	-s i' m p u th e" t i k	parasympathetic, sympathetic.
8	-m p u th e" t i k	empathetic.
7	-p u th e" t i k	apathetic, pathetic.
5	-th e" t i k	aesthetic, anesthetic, kinesthetic, prosthetic, synthetic.
4	-e" t i k	acetic, alphabetic, apologetic, arithmetic, ascetic, athletic, cosmetic, diabetic, diamagnetic, dietetic, diuretic, electromagnetic, emetic, energetic, epigenetic, ferromagnetic, frenetic, genetic, geomagnetic, homiletic, hyperkinetic, kinetic, magnetic, paramagnetic, parthenogenetic, peripatetic, phonetic, poetic, prophetic, unapologetic.
3	-t i k	acoustic, acrobatic, aerobatic, agnostic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apocalyptic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, aromatic, arthritic, artistic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, atavistic, atheistic, attic, authentic, autistic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, ballistic, bombastic, bureaucratic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, charismatic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, coloristic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diagnostic, diagrammatic, dialectic, didactic, diplomatic, dogmatic, domestic, dramatic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, elastic, electrolytic, electrostatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, enthusiastic, enzymatic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fanatic, fantastic, fatalistic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frantic, futuristic, galactic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homeostatic, humanistic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, lymphatic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mathematic, mechanistic, melodramatic, militaristic, monastic, monochromatic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, numismatic, oligopolistic, onomastic, operatic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, orthodontic, pancreatic, pantheistic, paralytic, parasitic, paternalistic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, pessimistic, phosphatic, plastic, pluralistic, pneumatic, polytheistic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, primitivistic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, propagandistic, prophylactic, prostatic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, rheumatic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, schematic, scholastic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, static, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, symptomatic, synergistic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, terroristic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, voyeuristic.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-n-p-s-t-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: sympathetic.
	-3 letters: humectants, metaphysic, myasthenic, paunchiest, tympanites, unchastity, unemphatic.
	-4 letters: antitypes, authentic, camphines, cathepsin, hesitancy, humectant, intestacy, mechanist, pantheism, pantheist, patchiest, picayunes, pittances, pneumatic, punchiest, sympathin, synthetic, thematics, tunesmith, tunicates, tympanies, tympanist, yachtsmen.
	-5 letters: amethyst, amnestic, antismut, antitype, asthenic, autecism, camphine, campiest, campsite, catmints, chanteys, chanties, chastity, chestnut, chimneys, chutneys, cyanites, empathic, emphatic, entastic.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-n-p-s-t-t-u-y"
	+4 letters: unsympathetically.
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