transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌnkaɪnd ]
( unkinder, unkindest)
1.
If someone is unkind , they behave in an unpleasant, unfriendly, or slightly cruel way. You can also describe someone’s words or actions as unkind .
All last summer he’d been unkind to her...
No one has an unkind word to say about him...
Without wishing to be unkind, she’s not the most interesting company...
≠ kind
ADJ : oft ADJ to n , it v-link ADJ to-inf
• un‧kind‧ly
Several viewers commented unkindly on her costumes...
‘He’s a bit of an eccentric old fatty,’ Thomas thought, unkindly.
≠ kindly
ADV : ADV with v , ADV with cl
• un‧kind‧ness
He realized the unkindness of the remark and immediately regretted having hurt her with it.
≠ kindness
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you describe something bad that happens to someone as unkind , you mean that they do not deserve it. ( WRITTEN )
The weather was unkind to those pipers who played in the morning.
...a shared conviction that some unkind fate or chance is keeping them apart.
≠ kind
ADJ : oft ADJ to n