kindless

Adjective

kindless (comparative more kindless, superlative most kindless)

1. (archaic, literary) Unnatural; lacking expected feeling or ability.
   • Poore Thamar, little did thy louely hands
     Foretell an action of ſuch violence,
     As to contend with Ammons luſty armes,
     Sinnewd with vigor of his kindleſſe loue,
     Faire Thamar now diſhonour hunts thy foot,1599, George Peele, The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe, page 37
   • Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine!c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. (archaic) Heartless; destitute of kindness.
   • For a selfish and kindless nature no apologist dare appear : while in behalf of those who err from the excess of generous affections, there standeth ever a mediating angel between them and their worst offences.1822, Anna Maria Porter, Roche-blanche; or, The Hunters of the Pyrenees, page 369
   • It is honorable to human nature, that his impressions of the common people in England, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, were of a pleasing character, as he was often placed in relations to them calculated to draw out their true nature, whether it were kind or kindless.1847 March, “Review of new books”, in Graham's Magazine, volume 30, number 3, page 204
3. (type theory) Having no specific kind, unspecified, general.
   • Types are called kindless if their interface has been specified, but we have not yet decided how to describe their behavior and we do not know their kind. We have currently implemented kindless objects as regular objects with a predefined behavior.1992, Aviv Cohen, Shmuel Tyszberowicz, Amiram Yehudai, “OBSERV/CRUISE—A CASE Environment for Prototyping of Complex Systems”, in K. Lyytinen, V.P. Tahvanainen, editors, Next Generation CASE Tools...
   • In addition to performing queries on entities of a given kind, the datastore lets you perform a limited set of queries on entities of all kinds. Kindless queries cannot use filters or sort orders on properties.2010, Dan Sanderson, Programming Google App Engine, page 143