unkind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective lacking kindness
    • a thoughtless and unkind remark
    • the unkindest cut of all
  2. adjective satellite deficient in humane and kindly feelings
    pitiless.

WordNet

Un*kind" adjective
Etymology
See Kin kindred.
Definitions
  1. Having no race or kindred; childless. Obs. & R. Shak.
Un*kind" adjective
Definitions
  1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural. Obs. "Such unkind abominations." Chaucer.
  2. Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
    He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot.
    -- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.

Webster 1913