Heartless
Heartless adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Usage example: a heartless boss who would fire people for missing work, even if they were sick as a dog
Unloving and heartless are semantically related in unfeeling topic. In some cases you can use "Unloving" instead an adjective "Heartless".
Nearby Words: heart, heartlessly
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Keeping with the series' tone, this is deconstructed and played for tragedy, as Plutonian spent most of his boyhood bounced around between unloving and heartless foster homes where everyone feared him for his powers, instilling him with a compulsive need to be loved by everyone as an adult.
Source: Comic Book / Irredeemable - Face it, moron core, you are nothing but a cold, heartless, sadistic, unloving machine.
Source: Not So Different / Fan Works
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Unloving and Heartless. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartless/unloving
Heartless & Unloving. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartless/unloving>.
Unloving or Heartless. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartless/unloving.
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