pitiless
Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈpɪtɪləs/
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ˈpɪtɪləs
Adjective
Having, or showing, no pity; merciless, ruthless.
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O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
More examples (1)
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.
Having no kind feelings; unkind.
Adjective
without mercy or pity
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an act of ruthless ferocity
a monster of remorseless cruelty
deficient in humane and kindly feelings
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