Dictionary

pitiless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪtɪləs/
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Etymology

From Middle English piteeles, pyteles; equivalent to pity + -less.

Meanings

1. Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
   • Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters, and through the pitiful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pitiless thorns and brambles through which she had been dragged. 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Fifty Frightful Men”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 319:
   • O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream? 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
2. Having no kind feelings; unkind.

Forms

Deriveds

pitilessly · pitilessness

Synonyms

cruel · compassionless · savage · rotten · fell · incessive · inclement · diabolical · demonic · spiteful · diabolic · unkind · pitiless · unbenign · unsympathetic · sadistic · ruthless · remorseless · unbenevolent · malicious · inhuman · unpitying · nonhumane · flagitious · hardhearted · bowelless · inhumane · merciless · compassionless · truculent · brutal · barbarous · nasty · unpitiful · unmerciful · despiteful

Translations (49)

fo miskunnarleysur (having no pity) · it spietato (having no pity) · uk безжа́лісний (having no pity) · pt desapiedado (having no pity) · sh не̏човјечан (having no pity) · ru немилосе́рдный (having no pity) · it crudele (having no pity) · it impietoso (having no pity) · hy վատասիրտ (having no pity) · cs nelítostný (having no pity) · la torvus (having no pity) · fr impitoyable (having no pity) · el αλύπητος (having no pity) · ka შეუბრალებელი (having no pity) · sv skoningslös (having no pity) · sh nȅmilosrdan (having no pity) · de unbarmherzig (having no pity) · be неміласэ́рны (having no pity) · grc ἄνοικτος (having no pity) · gv neuerreeishagh (having no pity) · nl onbarmhartig (having no pity) · es despiadado (having no pity) · sh nȅčovečan (having no pity) · be бязлі́тасны (having no pity) · nl meedogenloos (having no pity) · uk безжа́льний (having no pity) · sk neľútostný (having no pity) · bg безмилостен (having no pity) · la immisericors (having no pity) · fi armoton (having no pity) · ga cruachroíoch (having no pity) · de erbarmungslos (having no pity) · pl niemiłosierny (having no pity) · hy քար (having no pity) · cs nemilosrdný (having no pity) · pl bezlitosny (having no pity) · fur crudêl (having no pity) · sh не̏милосрдан (having no pity) · sh не̏човечан (having no pity) · gd mì-chneasta (having no pity) · uk немилосе́рдний (having no pity) · sh nȅčovječan (having no pity) · eo senkompata (having no pity) · ru безжа́лостный (having no pity) · pt impiedoso (having no pity) · ka ულმობელი (having no pity) · fo eirindaleysur (having no pity) · gd neo-thruacanta (having no pity) · ota دینسز (having no pity)