unfeeling

«unfeeling» in Mova's school dictionary: Not kind; not caring about other people's feelings or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (unfeeling)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not kind; not caring about other people's feelings or pain; hard-hearted. tree →

2) (rare) Not able to feel anything physically, numb. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories to describe cruel or cold characters: an unfeeling stepmother. Alice finds some Wonderland creatures unfeeling, such as the Queen who orders heads cut off. In The Wind in the Willows Toad calls the people who lock him up unfeeling. Values lessons: the opposite of empathy.

examples

• The unfeeling giant laughed at the crying child. tree →
• «How unfeeling of you!» cried Alice. tree →
• It was unfeeling to laugh at her fall. tree →
• The Queen was cold and unfeeling. tree →
• Toad complained that the world was unfeeling. tree →
• His fingers were unfeeling with cold. tree →

note

Un- = not. Similar: heartless, cold, callous. Opposite: kind, caring, sympathetic.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unfeeling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.