unsympathetic
unsympathetic adjective: not sympathetic; ill-disposed.
Adjective
unsympathetic (comparative more unsympathetic, superlative most unsympathetic)
- Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
- His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating.2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58
- Synonyms:
- cold, harsh, brutal, callous, insensate, hardhanded, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, thick-skinned
unsympathetic meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam
unsympathetic in Hindi
- not sympathetic
- रूखा rūkhā
unsympathetic in Urdu
- not sympathetic
- روکھا rūkhā
unsympathetic in Malayalam
- unfeeling, unconcerned, uncaring
- അനുകമ്പയില്ലാത്ത, അനുതാപമില്ലാത്ത, കരുണയില്ലാത്ത, കാരുണ്യമില്ലാത്ത, അകാരുണിക, ശ്രദ്ധയില്ലാത്ത
- against, opposed, (dead) set against
- എതിരായ, പ്രാതികൂലിക, പ്രതികൂലമായ, കടകവിരുദ്ധമായ, കടന്നാക്രമിക്കുന്ന, പ്രതിയോഗിതയുള്ള
- disagreeable, unlikeable, unpleasant
- ഇഷ്ടപ്പെടാത്ത, ഇഷ്ടപ്പെത്തക്കല്ലാത്ത, അഹിതകരമായ, അരോചകമായ, ആക്ഷേപാർഹമായ, പ്രതിഷേധാർഹമായ
Synonyms of unsympathetic
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Forms of unsympathetic
| comparative | more unsympathetic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsympathetic |
Origin of unsympathetic
From un- + sympathetic.
Words formed from unsympathetic
Words that rhyme with unsympathetic
- sympathetic
- hermetic
- kinetic
- athletic
- genetic
- magnetic
- energetic
- pathetic
- syndetic
- aesthetic
- diabetic
- diaeretic
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- frenetic
- mimetic
- peripatetic
- planetic
- poetic
- tonetic
- abietic
- anesthetic
- anoetic
- anuretic
- apathetic
- ascetic
- auxetic
- cybernetic
- dietetic
- epithetic
- Helvetic
- parasympathetic
- parenthetic
- phyletic
- Sidetic
- splenetic
- synaeretic
- synizetic
- tabetic
- threnetic
- alexipyretic
- algetic
- alphabetic
- alphametic
- amuletic
- analgetic
- anchoretic
- anoretic
- aphetic
- aporetic
- archegetic
- asyndetic
- auletic
- autonoetic
- balletic
- Baphometic
- cardioparasympathetic
- cardiosympathetic
- cometic
- conspiracy-theoretic
- cynegetic
- diagenetic
Questions about unsympathetic
- What does unsympathetic mean?
- Unsympathetic means not sympathetic; ill-disposed.
- What is unsympathetic in Hindi?
- Unsympathetic in Hindi is रूखा (rūkhā). See Unsympathetic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unsympathetic?
- Unsympathetic is an adjective.
Words near unsympathetic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unsympathetic (page history and authors); unsympathetic (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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