Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unempathetic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-em-pa-thet-ic
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking empathy.

Example Sentences

"But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact."

Etymology

From un- + empathetic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unempathetic (comparative) most unempathetic (superlative)

Derived Forms

unempathetically

Questions

What does unempathetic mean?: Lacking empathy.
Where does unempathetic come from?: From un- + empathetic.

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