| Pronunciation: | | 'hârtlis
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| Matching Terms: | | heartlessly, heartlessness
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- [adj] lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
- [adj] marked by lack of heart or feeling; "a heartless tyrant"; "heartless words"
- [adj] (archaic) devoid of courage or enthusiasm
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| | Synonyms: | | cruel, flinty, hardhearted, obdurate, spiritless, stony, unkind |
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| | Antonyms: | | hearted, soft-boiled, softhearted |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Heart"less\, a.
1. Without a heart.
You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom.
--J. Webster.
2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their
ground. --Dryden.
Heartless and melancholy. --W. Irwing.
3. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
``The heartless parasites.'' --Byron. -- {Heart"less*ly},
adv. -- {Heart"less*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, autistic, benumbed, blah, blase, blunt, bowed-down, bowelless, brazen, brutal, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cast down, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold of heart, coldblooded, cold-blooded, coldhearted, comatose, conscienceless, cool, cruel, dashed, dejected, depressed, desensitized, despairing, despondent, desponding, detached, discouraged, disheartened, disinterested, dispassionate, dispirited, dog-eat-dog, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, feeling low, flinthearted, flinty, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gritless, gutless, hard, hard of heart, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, hebetudinous, hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, in a stupor, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, inclement, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, insouciant, insusceptible, inured, languid, languishing, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lost to shame, low, low-spirited, merciless, nonchalant, nonemotional, numb, numbed, obdurate, objective, obtuse, Olympian, out of touch, passionless, passive, pessimistic, phlegmatic, pining, pitiless, pluckless, relentless, remorseless, resigned, ruthless, seared, self-absorbed, shameless, slack, sluggish, soporific, soulless, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stonyhearted, stupefied, subdued, suicidal, supine, torpid, unaffectionate, unblushing, uncaring, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unconcerned, uncourageous, undaring, unemotional, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungallant, unheroic, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, uninterested, unintrepid, unkind, unloving, unmerciful, unnatural, unpassionate, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unresponding, unresponsive, unsoldierlike, unsoldierly, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untouchable, unvaliant, unvalorous, unyielding, weary of life, withdrawn, without mercy, woebegone, world-weary |
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