ADJECTIVE | all | unmerciful, merciless | having or showing no mercy |
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Meaning | Having or showing no mercy. | |
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Synonym | merciless | |
Narrower | cutthroat, fierce, bowelless | ruthless in competition |
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 |
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 |
Spanish | despiadado | |
Catalan | cruel, despietat | |
Nouns | unmercifulness | inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving |
Adverbs | unmercifully | without pity / pity |
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