hardhearted

Questions about hardhearted

What does hardhearted mean?

hardhearted means "lacking in feeling or pity or warmth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hardhearted?

hardhearted has 4 syllables: hard-he-ar-ted. The stress falls on "he".

What is another word for hardhearted?

Close synonyms include heartless, stonyhearted, unfeeling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of hardhearted?

The recorded antonyms are softhearted.

Is hardhearted a common word?

hardhearted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.