Meaning | Having or showing no mercy. |
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Synonym | merciless |
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Narrower | cutthroat, fierce, bowelless | ruthless in competition |
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mortal | unrelenting and deadly |
pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying | Without mercy or pity / pity |
tigerish | resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy |
See also | bloody | Having or covered with or accompanied by blood |
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hard | dispassionate |
implacable | Incapable of being placated |
inclement | Used of persons or behavior |
uncompassionate | lacking compassion / compassion or feeling for others |
unkind | lacking kindness |
Opposite | merciful | showing or giving mercy |
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Spanish | despiadado |
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Catalan | cruel, despietat |
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Nouns | unmercifulness | inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving |
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Adverbs | unmercifully | without pity / pity |
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