unkind

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking kindness

   a thoughtless and unkind remark

2. 2
   adj

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

   Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;

3. 3
   adj

   Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.

   […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.

4. 4
   adj

   Having no race or kindred; childless.

   O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.

5. 5
   adj

   deficient in humane and kindly feelings

Etymology

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