unkind

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=kind

CIDE DICTIONARY

unkind, a. [See Kin kindred.].

 Having no race or kindred; childless.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

unkind, a. 

•  Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.  [1913 Webster]

  "He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unkind, adj.
1 not kind.
2 harsh, cruel.
3 unpleasant.

Derivative

unkindly adv. unkindness n.

THESAURUS

unkind

callous, cruel, disagreeable, flinty, hard, harsh, heartless, ill, inconsiderate, inflexible, inhospitable, inhuman, insensitive, mean, rigid, severe, stern, thoughtless, tough, unaffectionate, unamiable, unbending, unbenign, unbenignant, uncaring, uncharitable, unchristian, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unconcerned, uncordial, unfeeling, ungenial, ungracious, unkindly, unloving, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unthoughtful, unyielding

ROGET THESAURUS

unkind

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.