unsentimentalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɛntəl

形容詞

unsentimental (comparative more unsentimental, superlative most unsentimental)

1. Not sentimental.

   Synonyms: unemotional, unfeeling; see also Thesaurus:alexithymic

   • 1957 June, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 423:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

派生語

• unsentimentally