Dictionary

unsentimental en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin sentimentumder. Old French sentementder. English sentiment English -al English sentimental English unsentimental From un- + sentimental.

Meanings

1. Not sentimental.
   • The traditional British signal is on its way out. Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches. 1957 June 14, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 423:
   • But my favorite line of the sequence, and possibly the entire episode, is Homer asking his deeply irritated elderly neighbor, “Trying to run out the clock in Florida, eh?” That’s such a brutally funny, boldly unsentimental and coldly true bit of dialogue. 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Forms

Deriveds

unsentimentally · unsentimentalist

Synonyms

unfeeling · immovable · unsentimental · phlegmatic · dispassionate · nonsentimental · unpassionate · emotionless · unfeeling · apathistical · alexithymic · impassive · nonfeeling · stolid · unemotional · impassible · unemotional · nonpassionate · dull · insensible · unmovable · clinical · cold-hearted · nonemotional · cold-blooded · dead inside

Translations (4)

da usentimental (not sentimental) · nb usentimental (not sentimental) · nn usentimental (not sentimental) · de unsentimental (not sentimental)