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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNFEE'LING, a.
1. Insensible; void of sensibility.
2. Cruel; hard.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling]
2: devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: before 12th century 1. devoid of feeling ; insensate <an unfeeling corpse> 2. devoid of kindness or sympathy ; hardhearted, cruel <an unfeeling brute> • unfeelingly adverb • unfeelingness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 unsympathetic, harsh, not caring about others' feelings. 2 lacking sensation or sensitivity. Derivatives: unfeelingly adv. unfeelingness n. Etymology: OE unfelende (as UN-(1), FEELING)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unfeeling Un*feel"ing, a. 1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. --Gray. -- Un*feel"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*feel"ing*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as unfeeling, you are criticizing them for their lack of kindness or sympathy for other people. (WRITTEN) He was branded an unfeeling bully... There's no way anyone could accuse this woman of being cold and unfeeling... = insensitive ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Insensible, torpid, numb, apathetic, callous, insensate, without sensibility. 2. Cruel, unkind, unsympathizing, unsympathetic, hard, hard-hearted, cold-blooded, cold-hearted.

Moby Thesaurus

abiotic, affectless, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetized, arctic, asleep, autistic, azoic, benumbed, blunt, bowelless, brutal, callosity, callous, calloused, callousness, cantankerous, catatonic, chill, chilly, churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold of heart, cold-blooded, coldblooded, coldbloodedness, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, cool, crotchety, cruel, dead, deadened, deadness, dispassionate, dog-eat-dog, drugged, dull, dullness, dumb, electronarcosis, emotionally dead, emotionless, exacting, exanimate, flinthearted, flinty, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, harsh, heart of stone, heartless, heartlessness, icy, immovable, impassibility, impassible, impassive, imperception, imperceptive, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, impercipient, inanimate, inanimated, inclement, inconsiderateness, indurated, inert, inexcitable, inexorable, insensate, insensibility, insensible, insensibleness, insensitive, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insentient, insusceptible, ironhearted, lifeless, marblehearted, merciless, mute, narcosis, narcotization, nonconscious, nonemotional, nonliving, numb, numbed, numbness, obduracy, obdurate, objective, obtuse, obtuseness, out of touch, passionless, pins and needles, pitiless, pitilessness, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, self-absorbed, senseless, severe, soulless, spiritless, stony, stonyhearted, surly, thick skin, thick-skinned, thick-witted, tough, unaffectionate, unamiable, unanimated, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unconscious, uncordial, unemotional, unfeelingness, unfelt, unforgiving, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unkind, unloving, unmerciful, unmercifulness, unnatural, unnaturalness, unpassionate, unperceptive, unperceptiveness, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untouchable, unyielding, without mercy