Heartless meaning

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The definition of heartless is showing a lack of empathy or compassion.

When you walk by a starving person without feeling bad or giving him any food, this is an example of when you might be described as heartless.

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Lacking spirit, courage, or enthusiasm.
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Without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.

His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.

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Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless.
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Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless.
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Lacking kindness or feeling; hard and pitiless.
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Origin of heartless

  • heart +‎ -less

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Heartless Sentence Examples

  • Almost all that he gained by his heartless diplomacy was a seat in the council and in the star-chamber.

  • She's a conniving, self-serving, arrogant creature.  Heartless, too.

  • Dusty, his heartless assassin, had found his mate.

  • Muller divides the tribe into three families, Cypridinidae, Halocypridae, and the heartless Polycopidae, which constituted the tribe Cladocopa of Sars.

  • How could any human be so heartless to slay an infant?

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