unkindness
/ʌnˈkaɪndnəs/
unkindness noun: the state or quality of being unkind.
Noun
unkindness (countable and uncountable, plural unkindnesses)
- The state or quality of being unkind.
- His unkindness earlier comes from his bad mood.
- She shows her unkindness through her actions.
- An unkind act.
- You have done me an unkindness with your cruel deeds.
- A flock of ravens or sometimes crows.
- An unkindness of ravens spread across the sky.
- she brought down on her head an unkindness of crows, which limped across the beech-mast to stare one-sidedly at this... carrion in waiting.2014, Will Self, Shark, Grove Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- murder, conspiracy
unkindness meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
unkindness in Tamil
- இரக்கமின்மை, நிர்த்தாட்சிணியம்
unkindness in Bengali
- unkindness, cruelty, mercilessness
- অকৃপা ôkripa
unkindness in Malayalam
- disagreeableness, nastiness, unpleasantness
- ദയയില്ലായ്മ, നിർദ്ദയത്വം, ദയാശൂന്യത, അകാരുണ്യം, നിർഘൃണത, നെെർഘൃണ്യം
Examples of unkindness in a sentence
- "There's an unkindness of ravens that roosts on top of the guild.2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Thief Queen's Daughter, Starscape Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 228:
- A raven cawed somewhere up ahead, and its cry was answered by others, an unkindness of ravens on all sides.2010, Rick Burroughs, Alan Wake, Tor Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 38:
Synonyms of unkindness
Forms of unkindness
| plural | unkindnesses |
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Origin of unkindness
From Middle English unkyndenesse; equivalent to unkind + -ness.
Questions about unkindness
- What does unkindness mean?
- Unkindness means the state or quality of being unkind.
- What is unkindness in Tamil?
- Unkindness in Tamil is இரக்கமின்மை, நிர்த்தாட்சிணியம். See Unkindness meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use unkindness in a sentence?
- "There's an unkindness of ravens that roosts on top of the guild.
- What part of speech is unkindness?
- Unkindness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce unkindness?
- Unkindness is pronounced /ʌnˈkaɪndnəs/.
- What is the plural of unkindness?
- The plural of unkindness is unkindnesses.
Words near unkindness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unkindness (page history and authors); unkindness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকৃপা (Bengali) (page history and authors); unkindness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.
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