Remorseless

adj

adj ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without remorse, mercy or pity.
  2. 2
    Unyielding or relentless.

    "She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was."

Adjective
  1. 1
    without mercy or pity wordnet

Synonyms

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mercilessbowellessbrutalcallouscrueldog-eat-dog

Example

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"O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell?"

Etymology

From remorse + -less.

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