Usually means: Lacking kindness, harsh, and cruel.
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  1. unkind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unkind: Merriam-Webster
  3. unkind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unkind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unkind: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unkind: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unkind, unkind: Wordnik
  8. unkind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unkind: Wiktionary
  10. unkind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unkind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unkind: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unkind: Dictionary.com
  14. unkind: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unkind: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unkind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Unkind: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. unkind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. unkind: Rhymezone
  20. unkind: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. unkind: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. unkind: FreeDictionary.org
  23. unkind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. unkind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unkind: Idioms

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  1. unkind: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unkind)

▸ adjective:  Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.

Similar:
unkindly, pitiless, inhumane, heartless, cruel, rigorous, unsympathetic, brutal, hurtful, harsh, more...

Opposite:
kind, nice, sweet, caring, thoughtful

Types:
rude, impolite, crude, vulgar, disrespectful, more...

Phrases:
unkind person, maliciously unkind, not unkind, opposite of unkind, unkind comment, more...

Adjectives:
little, full, devilish, dead, real, more, fair, sweet, self, light

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Similar:
unkindly, pitiless, inhumane, heartless, cruel, rigorous, unsympathetic, brutal, hurtful, harsh, more...

Opposite:
kind, nice, sweet, caring, thoughtful

Types:
rude, impolite, crude, vulgar, disrespectful, more...

Phrases:
unkind person, maliciously unkind, not unkind, opposite of unkind, unkind comment, carelessly unkind, unkind words, more...

Adjectives:
little, full, devilish, dead, real, more, fair, sweet, self, light

Colors:
    dark gray,     black,     blood red,     charcoal,     deep purple, more...



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