heartless
Meanings
Adjective
- lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
Adjective Satellite
- devoid of courage or enthusiasm
Adj
- Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel.
- Without a physical heart.
- Listless, unenthusiastic.
- Without courage; fearful, cowardly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hertles, herteles, from Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), equivalent to heart + -less. Cognate with German herzlos.
Synonyms
acardiac, boneless, callous, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cold, cold-eyed, cold-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, dour, fainthearted, fearful, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, gutless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, hen-hearted, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, milky, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, sissy, spineless, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, timid, timorous, tough, uncordial, unhearty, unmoved, unsympathetic, weak-kneed, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied
Antonyms
;, cordial, dauntless, heartful, hearty, softhearted
Scrabble Score: 12
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