Adjective

(er)

Very bad or intense.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

Strict or harsh.

Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

Adjective

(en-adj)

(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.

(Shakespeare)

Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.

Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.

* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' , page 16,

Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: “He plays golf like he plays politics — straight down the middle, and short.”

* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition, page 175,

We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.

* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , page 540,

In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.