KINDLESS Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

kindless

adjective

Definition of kindless

as in heartless

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Adjective

For more than a century, people have wondered whether Hyde was the innocent victim of an amazing set of coincidences or a heartless killer who never paid for his crimes.

— Dan Kelly August 22, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2026
As if the force itself were a heartless heart.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 June 2026

Definition of heartless

Adjective

Nilsson’s depiction of bodies past their prime conjures not the pitiless naturalism of Joan Semmel or Alice Neel, but something friskier, more delighted.

— Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.

— Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026

Definition of pitiless

Adjective

However, his team describes Fred as a tyrant, who is uncaring and belligerent and micro-manages everything.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Other scholars, however, downplay the book’s diablerie, viewing the Pequod’s captain instead as an admirably heroic overreacher or a latter-day Prometheus facing down the gods, fate, the uncaring universe.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of uncaring

Adjective

Yet the very readiness with which the hard-hearted General Tilney believes this account suggests that he is used to reliable reports of other people’s wealth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
That makes perfect sense to all but the closed-minded or hard-hearted.

— Jim Newton, Mercury News, 27 June 2025

Definition of hard-hearted

Adjective

Civilizations could have risen to their zenith and crumbled in the time our micrometeoroid spent traversing the unfeeling expanse of interplanetary space, but its demise lasted but a fraction of a second.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 July 2026
Readers can judge Jane and me, deciding that one of us was unfeeling or uncomprehending.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of unfeeling

Adjective

Ash trees are prone to emerald ash borers that weaken the wood and risk damage from brittle limbs that eventually fall.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
Extending the plant’s life through 2045 means 15 more years of nuclear waste and seismic risk as the 1980s-era plant gets older and more brittle.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of brittle

Adjective

There’s nothing wrong with a great scoop, but sometimes the weather calls for something lighter, icier and a little more unexpected.

— Lia Picard - For the AJC, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Posing next to co-star Sandra Bullock, the Australian star looked statuesque in a strapless column dress that was completely covered in icy mint sequins, which looked like scales.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026

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