Synonyms for Merciless

Synonyms for "merciless" (113 found)

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Closest matches (23)

atrocious barbarian barbaric barbarous bestial bloody bowelless brutal brutish callous cold cold-blooded cold-hearted crude cruel

Adjective(7 words)

bloodthirsty brutalcold-blooded animalcoldhearted cruelcruel personcrueler

Noun(1 words)

cold blooded

Strong matches (34)

Adjective(5 words)

cruelest crueller cruellest grim harsh

cutthroat deadlydog-eat-dogferal ferine ferocious fierce flinty ghoulish grim hard harsh heartless illiberal implacable inclement inconsiderate indifferent inexorable inflexible

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inhuman inhumane insensitivekill crazykill-crazy malevolent malign malignant

Adjective(1 words)

mean

Related words (56)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

6 entries

character traitenvironmental conditionmoral defectnegative traitphenomenon attributesituational attribute

More specific

8 entries

cruel tacticsharsh climateintense stormpitiless enforcementruthless decisionsevere droughtunforgiving weatherunyielding stance

Collocations

6 entries

merciless attitudemerciless criticmerciless efficiencymerciless glaremerciless punishmentmerciless regime

Inflections

2 entries

more mercilessmost merciless

Derivations

2 entries

mercilessly mercilessness

Antonyms

1 entries

merciful

similar

15 entries

bloody bowelless cutthroat fierce hard implacable inclement mortal pitiless remorseless ruthless tigerish uncompassionate unkind unpitying

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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A merciless slaughter was committed in Srebrenica in 1995.

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Old age is merciless.

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Death is a mysterious, merciless lady.

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Be merciless.

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Merciless