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English Dictionary: unkind by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unkind
adj
  1. lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"
    Antonym(s): kind
  2. deficient in humane and kindly feelings
    Synonym(s): pitiless, unkind
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unkind \Un*kind"\, a. [See {Kin} kindred.]
      Having no race or kindred; childless. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unkind \Un*kind"\, a.
      1. Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or
            kindred; unnatural. [Obs.] [bd]Such unkind
            abominations.[b8] --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.
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