"heartless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈhɑɹt.lɪs/ [General-American], /ˈhɑːt.lɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-heartless.ogg [US] Forms: more heartless [comparative], most heartless [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tlɪs Etymology: From Middle English hertles, herteles, from Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), equivalent to heart + -less. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hertles}} Middle English hertles, {{m|enm|herteles}} herteles, {{inh|en|ang|heortlēas|t=without courage; listless}} Old English heortlēas (“without courage; listless”), {{af|en|heart|-less}} heart + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} heartless (comparative more heartless, superlative most heartless)
  1. (obsolete) Without courage; fearful, cowardly. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-heartless-en-adj-i8h7BuDP Disambiguation of Personality: 55 3 5 37
  2. (now rare) Listless, unenthusiastic. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-heartless-en-adj-3ebObH0w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 81 4 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -less: 19 54 11 16
  3. Without a physical heart.
    Sense id: en-heartless-en-adj-7VG6iTj8
  4. Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring. Translations (without feeling): ἄστοργος (ástorgos) (Ancient Greek), безсърдечен (bezsǎrdečen) (Bulgarian), 殘忍 (Chinese Mandarin), 残忍 (cánrěn) (Chinese Mandarin), 無情 (Chinese Mandarin), 无情 (wúqíng) (Chinese Mandarin), hjerteløs (Danish), senkora (Esperanto), sydämetön (Finnish), sans-cœur (French), herzlos (German), άκαρδος (ákardos) (Greek), szívtelen (Hungarian), 無情 (mujō) (alt: むじょう) (Japanese), insensibilis (Latin), socors (Latin), бездушен (bezdušen) (Macedonian), hjerteløs (Norwegian), بیدل (bidel) (Persian), bez serca (Polish), bezduszny (Polish), bezserdeczny [dated] (Polish), sem coração (Portuguese), бессерде́чный (besserdéčnyj) (Russian), безду́шный (bezdúšnyj) (Russian), bezcitný (Slovak), cruel (Spanish), desalmado (Spanish), hjärtlös (Swedish), безсерде́чний (bezserdéčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-heartless-en-adj-S8F3NWRv Disambiguation of 'without feeling': 24 1 21 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: heartlessly, heartlessness

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      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bezdušen",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "бездушен"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "hjerteløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bidel",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "بیدل"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "bez serca"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "bezduszny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "word": "bezserdeczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "sem coração"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besserdéčnyj",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "бессерде́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezdúšnyj",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "безду́шный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "bezcitný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "cruel"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "desalmado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "hjärtlös"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezserdéčnyj",
      "sense": "without feeling",
      "word": "безсерде́чний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "heartless"
}

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