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HEARTLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
Synonyms:
hardhearted; heartless
Classified under:
Similar:
flint; flinty; granitic; obdurate; stony (showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings)
Derivation:
heartlessness (an absence of concern for the welfare of others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Devoid of courage or enthusiasm
Classified under:
Similar:
spiritless (lacking ardor or vigor or energy)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Context examples:
Everybody knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence: and I know your spiteful hatred towards me: I have had a specimen of it before in the trick you played me about Lord Edwin Vere: you could not bear me to be raised above you, to have a title, to be received into circles where you dare not show your face, and so you acted the spy and informer, and ruined my prospects for ever.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
