Synonyms for heartless
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Cruel — without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel
cruel, hard-hearted, cold-hearted, callous, unsympathetic, brutal, pitiless, insensitive, cold informal, harsh, stony-hearted, stony, grim, hard, obdurate, hardened, disinterested, icy, demonic, severe, flinty, hard-boiled
Definitions
- adj. 1
Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel.
His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.
- adj. 2
Without courage; fearful, cowardly.
Related words
- Word family
- heartlessness
Example sentences
- cruel I think it is cruel to trap animals for fur coats.
- callous There is no need to be callous about deforestation.
By length
- 3 letters
- icy2
- 4 letters
- hard1, cold1, grim1
- 5 letters
- cruel2, harsh1, stony2
- 6 letters
- severe2, brutal2, flinty2
- 7 letters
- demonic3, callous2, gutless2
- 8 letters
- hardened2, sluggish2, pitiless3, obdurate3, unhearty, acardiac
- 9 letters
- spineless2
- 11 letters
- insensitive4
- 13 letters
- disinterested4, unsympathetic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (icy2 = 2 syllables).