UNKIND


Meaning of UNKIND in English

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

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