uncaring

adjective

un·​car·​ing ˌən-ˈker-iŋ How to pronounce uncaring (audio)
: lacking proper sympathy, concern, or interest
a cold and uncaring manner/attitude/person
an uncaring [=apathetic] attitude toward schoolwork
uncaringly adverb
uncaringness noun

Examples of uncaring in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The video, which had been edited before being posted, made Clarke look uncaring, seemingly praising a colleague who sold their family dog to facilitate working from the office. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 Be sure to negotiate this with your boss so that you aren’t viewed as insubordinate or uncaring. Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024 Brazil’s field workers were the first to be affected by these uncaring policies. Heslley MacHado Silva, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024 And how unfair, uncaring and random is the universe? Daryl Van Tongeren, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024 First, there’s the fear that an uncaring new ownership might end up sending one of the world’s most vital music libraries down the digital flush hole. Chris Richards, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023 And yet this is not a triumph for the underdog forces of all that is right and virtuous over their uncaring oppressors. Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023 The camera proves to be as uncaring as the wilderness itself. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023 Perhaps not so brazen and uncaring, but naive to what the world could be like. Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of uncaring was in 1786

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“Uncaring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncaring. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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