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Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
Matthew Macfadyen

Meaning of "unsympathetic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNSYMPATHETIC

unsympathetic  [ˌʌnsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNSYMPATHETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unsympathetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNSYMPATHETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unsympathetic in the English dictionary

The definition of unsympathetic in the dictionary is not characterized by, feeling, or showing sympathy. Other definition of unsympathetic is when postpositive, often foll by to or towards not showing agreement or favour.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNSYMPATHETIC


aesthetic
iːsˈθɛtɪk
anaesthetic
ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪk
anesthetic
ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪk
antipathetic
ænˌtɪpəˈθɛtɪk
apathetic
ˌæpəˈθɛtɪk
bathetic
bəˈθɛtɪk
biosynthetic
ˌbaɪəʊˌsɪnˈθɛtɪk
diathetic
ˌdaɪəˈθɛtɪk
dyspathetic
ˌdɪspəˈθɛtɪk
esthetic
iːsˈθɛtɪk
hypothetic
ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪk
nomothetic
ˌnɒməˈθɛtɪk
parasympathetic
ˌpærəˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk
pathetic
pəˈθɛtɪk
prosthetic
prɒsˈθɛtɪk
prothetic
prəˈθɛtɪk
sympathetic
ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk
synthetic
sɪnˈθɛtɪk
theopathetic
ˌθɪəpəˈθɛtɪk
unpathetic
ˌʌnpəˈθɛtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNSYMPATHETIC

unswollen
unswore
unsworn
unsyllabled
unsymmetrical
unsymmetrically
unsymmetrised
unsymmetrized
unsymmetry
unsympathetically
unsympathising
unsympathizing
unsympathy
unsynchronised
unsynchronized
unsystematic
unsystematical
unsystematically
unsystematised
unsystematized

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNSYMPATHETIC

antithetic
athletic
chemosynthetic
diarrhetic
empathetic
epenthetic
general anaesthetic
kinaesthetic
kinesthetic
local anaesthetic
nonaesthetic
parenthetic
photosynthetic
polysynthetic
preanesthetic
prophetic
synaesthetic
synesthetic
thetic
unaesthetic
unprophetic

Synonyms and antonyms of unsympathetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNSYMPATHETIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unsympathetic» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unsympathetic

Translation of «unsympathetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNSYMPATHETIC

Find out the translation of unsympathetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unsympathetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unsympathetic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无同情心的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poco comprensivo
570 millions of speakers

English

unsympathetic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुरूप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير متعاطف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несимпатичный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antipático
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমব্যথাহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peu compatissant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak simpatik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abweisend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

冷淡な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인정 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unsympathetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thương xót
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unsympathetic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अजिबात नसणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlayışsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poco comprensivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieczuły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несимпатичний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

simpatie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άπονος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onsimpatieke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

osympatisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

usympatiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unsympathetic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNSYMPATHETIC»

The term «unsympathetic» is regularly used and occupies the 82.627 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNSYMPATHETIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unsympathetic

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6 QUOTES WITH «UNSYMPATHETIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unsympathetic.
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Lee Child
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
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Glen Duncan
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.
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Matthew Macfadyen
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
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Matthew Macfadyen
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.
5
Pablo Schreiber
If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Ulrich Walter
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSYMPATHETIC»

Discover the use of unsympathetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unsympathetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unsympathetic Magic: Book Three of Esther Diamond
Unsympathetic Magic is the exciting third installment of the Esther Diamond series.
Laura Resnick, 2010
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Stanley Kubrick: Seven Films Analyzed
CHAPTER. 5. The. Shining: Unsympathetic. Vibrations. And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. - Edgar Allan Poe ("The Haunted Palace") ~|\/"ubrick's ...
Randy Rasmussen, 2005
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Dynamic Characters
But when it eventually came out, a great many people found the profoundly unsympathetic protagonist fascinating enough that they read the novel. Many others did not. Similarly if less dramatically, many readers praised John Updike for his ...
Nancy Kress, 2004
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Elites, Crises, and the Origins of Regimes
The distribution in table 10.3 shows that the majority of white (72 percent), Coloured (50 percent) and Indian (62 percent) elites had sympathy for the core state, whereas African elites (53 percent) were primarily unsympathetic. Most of the ...
Mattei Dogan, John Higley, 1998
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Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s
SAMUEL C. PATTERSON AND DAVID C. KIMBALL Today, many Americans think of "Congress as public enemy" - they are the notably unsympathetic audience for congressional politics (Hib- bing and Theiss-Morse 1995). Much of the time, ...
Herbert F. Weisberg, Samuel C. Patterson, 1998
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Jury And The Search For Truth: The Case Against Excluding ...
However, the bill makes no attempt to protect plaintiffs from evidence which would render them unsympathetic to the jury. Generally speaking, the object of the search would be relevant to whether the search was unreasonable. Certainly  ...
Orrin G. Hatch, 1995
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The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge ...
The next move is made by an unsympathetic reader, who points out the inconsistency between technique and theoretical language. As a result, the unsympathetic reader seems to demonstrate that the genius is “talking nonsense. ”40 Although ...
Nahid Aslanbeigui, Guy Oakes, 2009
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Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive ...
The Malice of Nature prohibits the Principle of Unsympathetic Magic from being a source of satisfaction to the field worker.” 73. J. Alan Pounds and Bruce Collette ( footnote 71) are the only two researchers mentioned in this appendix who did ...
Jonathan B. Losos, 2009
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Richard II
39. A.C.. Swinburne,. an. unsympathetic. view. of. Richard. II. 1875 From 'The Three Stages of Shakespeare', Fortnightly Review, N.S. 17 (1 May 1875); reprinted in A Study of Shakespeare (London, 1880). Algernon Charles Swinbume ...
Charles Forker, 1998
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Terminal World
Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology.
Alastair Reynolds, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSYMPATHETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unsympathetic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Unsympathetic rich promote policies that entrench poverty
I am staggeringly rich. I am not only one of the richest men living in Africa now but one of the richest men in the history of the world. Before I reveal my ... «Rand Daily Mail, Aug 15»
2
Editorial, 7/7: Confronting unsympathetic realities
“Time waits for no one, especially in the hyper-competitiveness of the 21st century, in which communities either control or are controlled by the unsympathetic ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Jul 15»
3
German Distillery Is Unsympathetic To Greece's Debt Issue
A Berlin distillery created a lemon-vodka drink called Grexit. That's the term for Greece's possible exit from the Eurozone, which some Germans may well toast. «NPR, Jun 15»
4
Unsympathetic response to widow's plight
Tara Nettleton, the widow of terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, made contact with police to discuss secretly returning home from Syria with her five children but she ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
5
Housing scheme rejected due to wholly unsympathetic layout
The inspector found that the proposal was wholly unsympathetic as regards its layout and relationship to its surroundings. The loss of openness and reduction in ... «PlanningResource, Jun 15»
6
These British tourists are upset about their holidays being ruined by …
Despite this, unsympathetic Brits abroad appeared to be more upset about their vacations – saying the presence of impoverished men, women and children ... «Metro, May 15»
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High quality landscape harmed by unsympathetic housing scheme
The open undeveloped character of a site on the edge of a settlement in Shropshire would be destroyed by a housing development, an inspector has concluded, ... «PlanningResource, Mar 15»
8
'By Being Unsympathetic And Nasty, Sonia Gave Me Freedom'
But being absolutely unsympathetic to me, even nasty, she gave me freedom. You are saying not meeting her helped? Yes. I may not have had access to the first ... «Outlook, Jan 15»
9
Carolyn Hax: Faced with an unsympathetic spouse, it's time to learn …
Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn: Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
10
Fury, film review: Brad Pitt is intriguing as an unsympathetic war hero
Pitt's performance is intriguing because, at least initially, he is prepared to be so unsympathetic. With his appetite for violence (“you're no goddam good to me ... «The Independent, Oct 14»

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