heartless Definition
heart·less (härt′lis)
adjective
- Archaic lacking spirit, courage, or enthusiasm
- lacking kindness or feeling; hard and pitiless
Etymology: ME herteles < OE heortleas
heartless Related Forms
heart′·lessly adverb
heart′·less·ness noun
heartless Synonyms
heartless Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- so: How can we be so heartless as to kill your pet, you ask?
- not: The group put their weapons away; these were people, not heartless.
- rather: They remind me of him, upstanding, decent and calculated not to offend, but really rather heartless and without exception absolute bores.
- very: Great movie, as close to the great series it was based on as possible, but it's still a very heartless affair.
- first: Time seemed to crawl as they waited for the first heartless to show.
- seemingly: This seemingly heartless statement has great meaning behind it.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
sound: I apologize if this sounds a bit heartless, but if evolution is true that is the only analysis which makes sense.
Modifies a noun
- bitch: Angie understands, but Josette the Black Pearl is a heartless bitch.
- bastard: For once, she thought, the heartless bastard was right.
- thief: The heartless thieves removed parts of the perimeter fence around the field.
- creature: She must be a heartless creature to sit laughing at some jest within a few hours of her husband's murder.
- world: This is an entertaining sci-fi caper about cloning in a heartless future world.
- man: Picked up the heartless men dashing benefits include annual a hostage to.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: The prevailing opinion that this shouldn't be allowed seems heartless.
- sound: It sounds heartless, but often totally ignoring him when he seems afraid produces an improvement.
- appear: The dilemma is that as broadcasters we do not want to appear heartless.
- look: Just as he took two steps, a large group of odd looking heartless began to come up out of the ground.
- become: The hearts taken by the Heartless become Heartless themselves.
Browse dictionary entries near heartless
- ‹ heartland
- ‹ heartiness
- ‹ heartily
- ‹ hearthstone
- ‹ hearthside
- ‹ hearth
- ‹ heartfelt
- ‹ hearten
- ‹ -hearted
- ‹ heartburn
- heartsease ›
- heartsick ›
- heartsome ›
- heartstrings ›
- heartthrob ›
- heartwarming ›
- heartwood ›
- heartworm ›
- hearty ›
- heat ›

