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Unkind

//ʌnˈkaɪnd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

    "Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;"

  2. 2
    Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural. obsolete

    "[…] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye."

  3. 3
    Having no race or kindred; childless. obsolete

    "O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind."

Adjective
  1. 1
    deficient in humane and kindly feelings wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking kindness wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English unkynde; equivalent to un- + kind.

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