kindlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

kindless (comparative more kindless, superlative most kindless)

1. (archaic, literary) Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,^[1]

     Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

   • 1771, Hugh Kelly, Clementina, London: Edward & Charles Dilly and T. Cadell, Act III, p. ,^[2]

     Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl!

     I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.

   • 1902, E. W. Hornung, The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, Chapter 10, pp. 111-112,^[3]

     The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind […]

反意語

• kindful