Definition of HEARTLESS

heartless

Meanings

Adjective

  • lacking in feeling or pity or warmth

Adjective Satellite

  • devoid of courage or enthusiasm

Adj

  • Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel.
  • Without a physical heart.
  • Listless, unenthusiastic.
  • Without courage; fearful, cowardly.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hertles, herteles, from Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), equivalent to heart + -less. Cognate with German herzlos.

Synonyms

acardiac, boneless, callous, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cold, cold-eyed, cold-hearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, dour, fainthearted, fearful, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, gutless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, hen-hearted, humorless, icy, insensitive, iron-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, milky, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, sissy, spineless, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, timid, timorous, tough, uncordial, unhearty, unmoved, unsympathetic, weak-kneed, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied

Scrabble Score: 12

heartless is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
heartless is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heartless is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

heartless is a valid Words With Friends word