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Adjective pitiless has 2 senses
- pitiless(s = adj.all) remorseless, ruthless, unpitying - without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty" Derived form noun pitilessness2
- pitiless(s = adj.all) unkind - deficient in humane and kindly feelings; Array Derived forms noun pitilessness2, noun pitilessness1
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pitiless, a.
- Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements. [1913 Webster]
- Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pitiless, adj. showing no pity (the pitiless heat of the desert).
Derivative
pitilessly adv. pitilessness n.
THESAURUS
pitiless
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bloody, bowelless, brutal, brutish, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, inclement, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, ironhearted, kill-crazy, malign, malignant, marblehearted, merciless, murderous, noncivilized, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, stony, tameless, uncivilized, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungentle, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untamed, unyielding, vicious, wild, without mercyROGET THESAURUS
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Pitilessness
N pitilessness, inclemency, severity, malevolence, pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless, unpitying, unmerciful, inclement, grim-faced, grim-visaged, incompassionate, uncompassionate, inexorable, harsh, unrelenting.Revenge
N revenge, revengement, vengeance, avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation, day of reckoning, rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness, avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides, revengeful, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, rankling, immitigable, manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum, dies irae dies illa, in high vengeance there is noble scorn, inhumanum verbum est ultio, malevolus animus abditos dentes habet, now infidel I have thee on the hip.
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