hard-hearted

Adjective

Meaning

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

hard hearted

Synonyms

stony remorseless hard cold cruel indifferent ruthless insensitive intolerant inhuman cold-blooded unconcerned unfriendly merciless unkind
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Antonyms

good humane kind understanding soft feeling
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Examples

Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found. Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found. Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight. Philip Sidney

God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others. Aleksandr Pushkin

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man! William Shakespeare

If I'm Pacey forever, then I deserve to be Pacey forever. The onus is on the actor. I hope I will never begrudge anything about that show. It changed my life and my family's life and I would have to be a really hard-hearted bastard to look back and be angry that I did it. Joshua Jackson

It’s as if Dickens realizes that even hard-hearted people might have the tiniest soft spot for themselves and their own suffering. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

hard-headed hard-headed political realism hard-headedly hard-hearted person hard-hearted towards someone hard-heartedly