unsentimental

adjective

un·​sen·​ti·​men·​tal ˌən-ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl How to pronounce unsentimental (audio)
Synonyms of unsentimentalnext
: not marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism : not sentimental
an unsentimental person
unsentimental remarks
unsentimentality
ˌən-ˌsen-tə-ˌmen-ˈta-lə-tē How to pronounce unsentimental (audio)
-mən-
noun
unsentimentally adverb

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This autobiography of Graves’ youth remains one of the greatest accounts of the war; unsentimental, often comic, but unflinching in its portrayal of battle and of postwar trauma. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Yet Gabriele is notably unsentimental about the prestige attached to any particular stockist. — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Smith Galer has much to say against the case for putting languages out of their misery, but her focus is on a point with which even the most unsentimental can surely sympathize. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 Her rigidly unsentimental mother, however, sees only urban labor and profitably arranged marriage in her future. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsentimental

Word History

First Known Use

1752, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unsentimental was in 1752

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