A merciless slaughter was committed in Srebrenica in 1995.
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Merciless
//ˈmɜːsɪləs//
Synonyms for "merciless" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
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4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
51 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀνελεήμων adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- ἄσπλαγχνος adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безмилостен adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Catalan
1 entries- despietat adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 殘忍 /残忍 adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- 無情 /无情 adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Czech
1 entries- nemilosrdný adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Danish
1 entries- nådesløs adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Dutch
1 entries- genadeloos adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Finnish
2 entries- armoton adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- säälimätön adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
French
1 entries- impitoyable adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
German
1 entries- gnadenlos adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Greek
1 entries- αλύπητος adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Hindi
3 entries- निर्दय adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- निर्दयी adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- निष्ठुर adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Hungarian
2 entries- kegyetlen adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- könyörtelen adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Indonesian
1 entries- sadis adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Irish
2 entries- neamhthrócaireach adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- éadrócaireach adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Italian
2 entries- crudele adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- spietato adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Japanese
2 entries- 容赦ない adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- 無慈悲 adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Korean
1 entries- 무자비하다 adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Latin
1 entries- immisericors adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Lithuanian
1 entries- negailestingas adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nådeløs adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nådelaus adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دینسز adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Polish
4 entries- bezlitosny adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- bezpardonowy adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- bezwzględny adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- niemiłosierny adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Portuguese
2 entries- imisericordioso adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- impiedoso adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Russian
2 entries- безжа́лостный adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- беспоща́дный adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mì-chneasta adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Spanish
2 entries- despiadado adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- inmisericorde adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Swedish
2 entries- obarmhärtig adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- skoningslös adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Tagalog
1 entries- walang awa adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Turkish
1 entries- acımasız adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Ukrainian
4 entries- безжальний adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- безжалісний adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- безпощадний adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
- немилосе́рдний adj (showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Old age is merciless.
Source: tatoeba (1366420)
Death is a mysterious, merciless lady.
Source: tatoeba (1398127)
Be merciless.
Source: tatoeba (2119149)
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