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View synonyms for cold-hearted

cold-hearted

[ kohld-hahr-tid ]

adjective

  1. lacking sympathy or feeling; indifferent; unkind.


cold-hearted

adjective

  1. lacking in feeling or warmth; unkind


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcold-ˈheartedly, adverb
  • ˌcold-ˈheartedness, noun

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Other Words From

  • coldhearted·ly adjective
  • cold-hearted·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cold-hearted1

First recorded in 1600–10

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Example Sentences

If it is true I can not understand that anybody can be so cruel and cold-hearted.

Catherine Zeta-Jones could play the cold-hearted heiress Veronica Lodge.

The cold-hearted countess felt no revival of maternal love, as she looked at her daughter's lifeless form.

He had called her a vain ambitious cold-hearted woman, who thought that her voice and her beauty could not be beaten.

But he is an Athenian, and I can understand that Snnica, the cold hearted, should have surrendered to one of her own people.

She supposed she was cold-hearted; yet when Pippin sang a hymn, she felt as if Heaven was close by.

Also she had in Ebenezer a cold-hearted scoundrel who backed her up completely.

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