hard-hearted
hard-hearted is the alternative form of hardhearted.
Meaning of hardhearted
Adjective
hardhearted (comparative more hardhearted or harderhearted, superlative most hardhearted or hardesthearted)
- Lacking in compassion; cold and pitiless.
- Some hardhearted souls may even question whether small acts of kindness really matter. Spoiler alert: They do!2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR
- Synonyms:
- flint-hearted, iron-hearted, stonehearted, brutal, callous, cold, insensate, hardhanded, cold-eyed, cruel
- Antonyms:
- softhearted
Forms of hard-hearted
| comparative | more hard-hearted |
|---|---|
| comparative | harder-hearted |
| superlative | most hard-hearted |
| superlative | hardest-hearted |
Words formed from hard-hearted
Questions about hard-hearted
- What is hard-hearted the alternative form of?
- Hard-hearted is the alternative form of hardhearted.
Words near hard-hearted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-hearted (page history and authors); hardhearted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “hard-hearted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hard-hearted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.