unsentimental
/ənsˌɛntɪmˈɛntəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not sentimental.
Example Sentences
- "The traditional British signal is on its way out. Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches."
- "But my favorite line of the sequence, and possibly the entire episode, is Homer asking his deeply irritated elderly neighbor, “Trying to run out the clock in Florida, eh?” That’s such a brutally funny, boldly unsentimental and coldly true bit of dialogue."
Etymology
Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin sentimentumder. Old French sentementder. English sentiment English -al English sentimental English unsentimental From un- + sentimental.
Inflected Forms
more unsentimental (comparative)
most unsentimental (superlative)