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unsympathising

unsympathising is the alternative form of unsympathizing.

Meaning of unsympathizing

Adjective

unsympathizing (not comparable)

  1. Failing to sympathize; lacking sympathy
    • It is often affirmed that utilitarianism renders men cold and unsympathizing; that it chills their moral feelings towards individuals; that it makes them regard only the dry and hard consideration of the consequences of actions, not taking into their moral estimate the qualities from which those...1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
    Synonyms:
    unsympathetic

Forms of unsympathising

comparativemore unsympathising
superlativemost unsympathising

Origin of unsympathising

From un- + sympathising.

Questions about unsympathising

What is unsympathising the alternative form of?
Unsympathising is the alternative form of unsympathizing.

Words near unsympathising in the dictionary

  1. unsymmetrized
  2. unsymmetry
  3. unsympathetic
  4. unsympathetically
  5. unsympatheticness
  6. unsympathising
  7. unsympathized
  8. unsympathizer
  9. unsympathizers
  10. unsympathizing
  11. unsympathizingly

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