UNCOMPASSIONATE Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

uncompassionate

adjective

Definition of uncompassionate

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

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Adjective

To its left-wing voter base, Labour seemed callous.

— Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
Watching the movie and Marcel’s fragile belief in a world so callous is to feel a surge of possibility for humanity.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026

Definition of callous

Adjective

During the first game, the Fever’s Caitlin Clark and the Mercury’s DeWanna Bonner got tangled up, said some unkind things, and five players wound up with technical fouls in the aftermath.

— Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 July 2026
The market is now doing what project-finance investors are meant to do, testing the cash flow and asking who is left holding the risk if the day of refinancing is unkind.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of unkind

Adjective

The heat has become so unbearable in Japan that weather officials in April announced a new term for days when maximum temperatures exceed 104 degrees — kokushobi, meaning harsh or cruel heat, according to the Japan Times.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
For thousands of Venezuelans, however, the lack of definitive answers has become one of the tragedy’s cruelest consequences.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026

Definition of cruel

Adjective

That number has remained stubbornly static, aggravating inhumane consequences of long-term homelessness.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Arianne Betancourt, an immigrant-rights advocate, said the accounts coming from Miramar reflect a larger pattern of inhumane detention conditions.

— Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Definition of inhumane

Adjective

As Micah so nicely puts it, there’s a narrative magnetism to Pitman’s repo encounters, many of which play out as micro-dramas of people in crisis confronting an embodied messenger of the great, unfeeling, deeply unfair American financial system.

— Austin Elias-de Jesus, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Ditto Hugh Jackman’s unerring performance — perhaps his finest dramatic work yet — as a savage, unfeeling thug and unrepentant murderer and thief.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

Definition of unfeeling

Adjective

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
Neither overly sentimental nor unsympathetic, Albert and Allen Hughes craft realistic characters with more nuance and complexity than traditional gangster films.

— Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026

Definition of unsympathetic

Adjective

Woody and Buzz have survived sadistic neighbors, evil toys and tyrannical daycare rulers.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 26 June 2026
In Dungeon Crawler Carl, written for television by film, TV and comic book writer Chris Yost, an alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 June 2026

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