- Archaic lacking spirit, courage, or enthusiasm
- lacking kindness or feeling; hard and pitiless
Origin of heartless
Middle English herteles from Old English heortleas
adjective
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 asheartless.
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heartless
adjective
- Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless.
- Archaic Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless.
Related Forms:
- heart′less·ly
adverb
- heart′less·ness
noun
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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.
- Muller divides the tribe into three families, Cypridinidae, Halocypridae, and the heartless Polycopidae, which constituted the tribe Cladocopa of Sars.
- In personal character he has sometimes been described as having been revoltingly heartless; and it is abundantly plain that he was singularly incapable of feeling strongly the more generous emotions - a misfortune, or a fault, which revealed itself in many ways.
- Dusty, his heartless assassin, had found his mate.
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