uncompassionate

adjective

Definition of uncompassionatenext
as in callous

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Recent Examples of uncompassionate For example, very low compassion was rare in both men and women, but the few people who identified as very uncompassionate were much more likely to be men. — Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2022 An uncompassionate person reading Kafka would simply give up. — David Means, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019 Storr argues that this uncompassionate edge of self-esteemery dovetails with the economic ideas of Ayn Rand and the competitive individualism of her followers in neoliberal politics. — Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times, 21 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncompassionate
  1. callous
  2. heartless
  3. unkind
  4. cruel
  5. inhumane
  6. unfeeling
  7. unsympathetic
  8. sadistic
Adjective
  • The callous economist would say, Well, food prices are really not going up that much faster than anything else.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • Although humanity’s salvation may appear to come in fits and starts, God’s healing influence always penetrates and gets through callous self-righteousness and indifference.
    — Mark Swinney, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2026
Definition of callous
Adjective
  • As if the force itself were a heartless heart.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • In contrast, Dessalines is typically described as violent, unthinking, emotional and heartless.
    — Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
Definition of heartless
Adjective
  • According to Winfrey, 72, the duo’s entrance sparked some unkind reactions online.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
  • Jones shattered, the way this league can crush a QB if the fates are unkind.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 July 2026
Definition of unkind
Adjective
  • Who could be so cruel as to cut off their family from the family plan?
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Influencer culture didn’t exist yet, but some designers were cruel and catty, even without the current omnipresent evil of social media.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026
Definition of cruel
Adjective
  • Congress recognized that extraordinary circumstances sometimes make removal inhumane and unsafe.
    — Ray Watford, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Those arrested — many of them torn from their crying children — were detained in squalid conditions for days at a time on the 10th floor that Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan earlier this year deemed inhumane.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026
Definition of inhumane
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
  • The normally prickly and unsympathetic Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) switches gears into hero mode, rounding up the town's men to scour the countryside for the children who've become trapped.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • But the global fame that Back to Black brought the London songstress only seemed to exacerbate her issues with addiction, and broadcast them to the world via a cruelly unsympathetic tabloid media ecosystem.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2026
Definition of unsympathetic
Adjective
  • The 76ers didn’t even desperately need him, which makes Myers waltzing into free agency and pulling off this casual heist even more delightfully sadistic.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • He was executed for the sadistic death of his wife in front of her teenage son in 1992 in Orange County.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Definition of sadistic

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“Uncompassionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncompassionate. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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