UNSENTIMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsentimental mean? 

• UNSENTIMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNSENTIMENTAL has 1 sense:

1. facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

  Familiarity information: UNSENTIMENTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSENTIMENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination

Synonyms:

tough-minded; unsentimental

Similar:

tough (not given to gentleness or sentimentality)

 Context examples 

Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsentimental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed affection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But memory turned traitor, and as if possessed by the perverse spirit of the girl, would only recall Jo's oddities, faults, and freaks, would only show her in the most unsentimental aspects—beating mats with her head tied up in a bandanna, barricading herself with the sofa pillow, or throwing cold water over his passion a la Gummidge—and an irresistable laugh spoiled the pensive picture he was endeavoring to paint.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)