Antonyms for unkind

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uhn-kahynd

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkaɪnd

Definition of unkind

Origin : early 13c. (implied in unkindly), "strange, foreign, unnatural," from un- (1) "not" + kind (adj.). Meaning "lacking in kindness" is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Unkindly; unkindness.

adj not nice

Example sentences :

If you think that, ma'am, it's very cruel and unkind of you to send me away.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

She did not wish to be unkind, but her one absorbing idea at this moment was of solitude.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

It would be so unkind if she did not answer immediately: she must answer.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

He thinks, though he has all honour for my mother, that she is unkind to us both.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

I take it unkind of you that you have not so much as dipped ensign to me on leaving.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I am sure nobody wishes to be unkind to you," she said, with embarrassment.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It will be unkind to poor Jack to hurry away from his grave so indecently.
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

All who wished to be unkind to her could find in it an occasion for hard sayings.
Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

That cold, intellectual nature of hers would be just, if unkind.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

It was an unkind thing to have said, and the lad rightly turned upon me.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

Synonyms for unkind

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