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unkind.

Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ʌnˈkaɪnd/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

  2. Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.

    obsolete
  3. Having no race or kindred; childless.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English unkynde; equivalent to un- + kind.

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