used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate"; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
If someone is unkind, they behave in an unpleasant, unfriendly, or slightly cruel way. You can also describe someone's words or actions as unkind. All last summer he'd been unkind to her No one has an unkind word to say about him Without wishing to be unkind, she's not the most interesting company kind + unkindly un·kind·ly Several viewers commented unkindly on her costumes `He's a bit of an eccentric old fatty,' Thomas thought, unkindly. kindly + unkindness un·kind·ness He realized the unkindness of the remark and immediately regretted having hurt her with it. kindness
If you describe something bad that happens to someone as unkind, you mean that they do not deserve it. The weather was unkind to those pipers who played in the morning. a shared conviction that some unkind fate or chance is keeping them apart. kind. nasty, unpleasant, or cruel