Word Meanings - HARD-HEARTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless. -- Hard"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARD-HEARTED)

• Cruel
• Savage
• barbarous
• pittiless
• inexorable
• unrelenting
• ruthless
• truculent
• hard-hearted
• harsh
• unmerciful
• brutal
• inhuman
• maleficent
• malignant

Related words: (words related to HARD-HEARTED)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• TRUCULENTLY
  In a truculent manner.
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• HARSH
  Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
• BRUTALLY
  In a brutal manner; cruelly.
• UNMERCIFUL
  Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ly, adv. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ness, n.
• MALIGNANTLY
  In a malignant manner.
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• TRUCULENT
  1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. Ray. 2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless. More or less truculent plagues. Harvey.
• SAVAGELY
  In a savage manner.
• CRUELLY
  1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremly; very. Spectator.
• CRUELNESS
  Cruelty. Spenser.
• UNRELENTING
  Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel. -- Un`re*lent"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`re*lent"ing*ness, n.
• SAVAGE
  belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage
• RUTHLESS
  Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. Their rage the hostile bands restrain, All but the ruthless monarch of the main. Pope. -- Ruth"less*ly, adv. -- Ruth"less*ness, n.
• INEXORABLE
  Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• NONMALIGNANT
  Not malignant, as a disease.
• SEMIBARBAROUS
  Half barbarous.