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kindless

adj

Etymology

From kind (“inherent quality, nature”, noun) + -less. Compare Middle English kindelæs (“incapable of generation, barren”). The sense "destitute of kindness" is likely influenced by kind (“benevolent; affectionate”, adjective).

  1. inherited from *kinþiz✻
  2. inherited from *kundi✻
  3. inherited from cynd
  4. inherited from kynde
  5. formed as kindless — “kind + -less”

Definitions

  1. Unnatural

    Unnatural; lacking expected feeling or ability.

    • Poore Thamar, little did thy louely hands Foretell an action of ſuch violence, As to contend with Ammons luſty armes, Sinnewd with vigor of his kindleſſe loue, Faire Thamar now diſhonour hunts thy foot,
    • Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine!
    • Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl! I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.

  2. Heartless

    Heartless; destitute of kindness.

    • For a selfish and kindless nature no apologist dare appear : while in behalf of those who err from the excess of generous affections, there standeth ever a mediating angel between them and their worst offences.

  3. Having no specific kind, unspecified, general.

    • In addition to performing queries on entities of a given kind, the datastore lets you perform a limited set of queries on entities of all kinds. Kindless queries cannot use filters or sort orders on properties.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kindless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA