unsympathetically
In callous fashion
In a manner showing no sympathy or compassion.
Someone who responds unsympathetically to another's troubles offers no comfort or understanding: She listened unsympathetically as he explained why he'd missed the deadline.
The word often implies coldness or indifference where warmth might be expected.
Without emotional warmth
- heartlesslyWithout empathy or care
- cruellyIn a harsh, pitiless manner
- mercilesslyWithout pity or restraint
- pitilesslyWithout compassion or remorse
unfeelingly · ruthlessly · hardhearted · uncompassionately · inhumanely · stonily · remorselessly · uncharitably
Without interest or emotion
- detachedlyIn uninvolved manner
- nonchalantlyWith studied indifference
- alooflyIn detached manner
- impassivelyWithout visible reaction
stoically · unconcernedly · dispassionately · unresponsively · coolly · distantly · incuriously · blankly
In a severe manner
- severelyIn a harsh manner
- rigidlyIn an unyielding manner
- unforgivinglyWithout offering pardon
- strictlyWithout any flexibility
punitively · austerely · uncompromisingly · inflexibly · critically · judgmentally · disapprovingly · censoriously
coldly
Without emotional warmth
- heartlesslyWithout empathy or care
- cruellyIn a harsh, pitiless manner
- mercilesslyWithout pity or restraint
pitilessly · unfeelingly · ruthlessly · hardhearted · uncompassionately · inhumanely · stonily · remorselessly · uncharitably · hard-heartedly
apathetically
Without interest or emotion
- detachedlyIn uninvolved manner
- nonchalantlyWith studied indifference
- alooflyIn detached manner
impassively · stoically · unconcernedly · dispassionately · unresponsively · coolly · distantly · incuriously · blankly · dismissively
sternly
In a severe manner
- severelyIn a harsh manner
- rigidlyIn an unyielding manner
- unforgivinglyWithout offering pardon
strictly · punitively · austerely · uncompromisingly · inflexibly · critically · judgmentally · disapprovingly · censoriously · unsparingly
unsympatheticallysympathetically
With shared feeling
compassionately · empathetically · warmly · kindly · understandingly
unsympatheticallykindly
Warmly, with goodwill
favorably · supportively · charitably · mercifully · benevolently
empathy, sympathy, pathetic, sympathetic, apathy, antipathy, pathos, sympathize, unsympathetic