unsympathetic

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sympathetic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

Adjective

unsympathetic (comparative more unsympathetic, superlative most unsympathetic)

1. Not sympathetic.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.

   • 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:

     After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating.

Translations

not sympathetic

• Danish: usympatisk
• Finnish: vastenmielinen (fi)
• French: antipathique (fr)
• German: teilnahmslos (de), mitleidslos
• Greek: άπονος (el) (áponos), ασυμπαθής (el) (asympathís)
• Hindi: रूखा (hi) (rūkhā)
• Icelandic: ógeðfelldur, óviðkunnanlegur, óviðfelldinn
• Irish: neamhchásmhar, antuisceanach
• Italian: antipatico (it)
• Japanese: つれない (ja) (tsurenai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: usympatisk

  Nynorsk: usympatisk

• Sicilian: lisciu (scn)
• Swedish: osympatisk (sv)
• Urdu: روکھا (rūkhā)