unsympathetic
/ənsˌɪmpəθˈɛtɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not sympathetic; ill-disposed
Example Sentences
- "His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings."
- "After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sympathetic English unsympathetic From un- + sympathetic.
Inflected Forms
more unsympathetic (comparative)
most unsympathetic (superlative)